After some discussion with PGR, we think it makes more sense for the detection to live in the Teiid Designer repository.

Teiid Designer currently only has code for detecting teiid in *running* servers, with no support for identifying a Teiid installation in servers that aren't running.  This makes sense for their use case (server may be remote) but is not useful for runtime detection at all.

TD currently is not involved in the server creation at all, but rather just adds listeners so that once a server is added, or started, they can begin their configuration / build up their model. They also provide editor extensions that allow setting fields on the IServerWorkingCopy.

Barry:   One thing that would help tremendously with identifying installations in non-running local servers is if I could have a map of Teiid / DV releases and what underlying JBoss / Wildfly / EAP versions they correspond to. What I've heard so far is that Teiid 7.x was based on JBoss 5, while the 8.x stream is for AS7.  It's pretty important to get a full mapping of supported releases to their underlying JBoss version, though. This way I can properly implement the Server Bean Loaders / Runtime detection.

One final thing to note, which I think we should bring up to the Teiid runtime team directly, is that DV product properly uses the layer system in JBoss 7.  It has the expected org/jboss/as/product/dv/dir/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file,  with the expected attribute JBoss-Product-Release-Version: 6.1.0...

But the community releases of Teiid *do not*.  They simply put everything in modules/system/layers/base, with no clear way of identifying a version. If I wanted to look at the version here, I'd need to introspect teiid-8.10.0.Final/modules/system/layers/base/org/jboss/teiid/api/main/teiid-api-8.10.0.Final.jar  and look at it's manifest.mf for the Bundle-Version,  which so far seems accurate.

With all this in mind, it should be relatively painless (once I get that version mapping from Barry) to get runtime detection + downloading supported for Teiid Runtime / DV.   There may be some issues in stacks.yaml  (since I'm not too familiar with all the bom stuff) but I expect the version mapping will help me to properly pull from other parts of stacks.yaml without issue.

- Rob Stryker

- Rob Stryker