[jbosstools-dev] AS 7 now seem to provide a stable Java API YAY!

Andre/Rob, From this night irc chat (yes - my jetlag woke me up after 2 hrs sleep ...): controller-client in AS 7 seem to have small dependency set and according to Brian - it will be portable/work across versions. Worth then taking a look at it ...but be careful - might be worth it ensuring its encapsulated so if incompatibilities arises we aren't too screwed. This means you actually can use a somewhat typed API to talk to AS7 (hopefully EAP 6) and get a fully typed deployment api. See details below. maxandersen Nihility: bstansberry: btw. i'm still confused on what compatibility level the java api will have ? when we talked at devoxx I understood as the java api would have same problems as older AS's (i.e. I would need to compile/run against the matching runtime jars to get it to work) …is that no longer true ? 06:32 bstansberry that is no longer true 06:32 smcgowan nihility: the tests are running locally but won't be able to run in Hudson till I can resolve lookups to jdbc/DB1 06:33 jclingan [~Adium(a)72-254-61-94.client.stsn.net] entered the room. 06:34 bstansberry maxandersen: the library we use for the "detyped" request and response objects will remain compatible. the wire protocol will remain compatible. the simple API to make requests will remain compatible 06:35 maxandersen and this is something more than dmr, correct ? 06:35smarlow communication breakdown smarlow The call to the JIRA server did not complete within the timeout period. We are unsure of the result of this operation. 06:36 maxandersen bstansberry: any way to know which API will remain "highly" compatible ? some specific jar or java package ? 06:36 bstansberry the simple API? it's the controller-client module in the AS source tree that's really the API, then it's maven deps right now it's depending on another AS module jboss-as-protocol for the transport stuff, but that will be replaced in a later beta with something long-term 06:39 maxandersen bstansberry: thats *great* news... so this api currently seem to cover "raw" domain model operations and hten some specific api for deployment… correct? bstansberry: will that include more before final or is that the basic goal ? 06:41 bstansberry I don't want to go much beyond that 06:41 maxandersen bstansberry: but thats great then bstansberry: that simplifies things a lot for us then... bstansberry: at least I hope so 06:42 bstansberry yes, that's the idea 06:42 maxandersen bstansberry: so this would give us "easy" remote deployment I would guess 06:42 lgao [~lgao(a)60.247.97.98] entered the room. 06:42 maxandersen bstansberry: does the remote api support or plan to support incremental updates or is that out of scope ? rawbdor: good news for you and Andre ^ 06:43 bstansberry not sure what you mean by incremental updates 06:44 maxandersen just update lets say foo.war/index.html and not the whole 20 MB war... 06:46 mbg|away is now known as mbg 06:47 maxandersen bstansberry: that would reduce the need for our file and ssh support for AS7 and users could just stay on one of the deployments mechanism instead of toggling between them too much. 06:47 bstansberry oh, yeah, incremental is out of scope /max http://about.me/maxandersen