[jboss-as7-dev] default configurations (was: Re: Changes to .jsp in an exploded deployment no longer picked up?)

[Andrig Miller]

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> From: "denstar" <valliantster at gmail.com>
> To: "JBoss AS7 Development" <jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:29:53 PM
> Subject: [jboss-as7-dev] default configurations (was: Re: Changes to .jsp in an exploded deployment no longer picked
> up?)
> Is AS7 targeting developers or admins?
> 

It has to target both.  In fact, a large majority of the work is on the admin side of things, reference the administration CLI, the new console, the cleaned up configuration even for standalone (one configuration file for all subsystems instead of hundreds of files).

> Developers and admins have a slew of different, and many times
> opposing, concerns.
> 
> Take exploded vs. unexploded. As a dev, "explode away!". As an
> admin, "wrap that sucker up into one file, por favor".
> 
> If we're going to choose one to target, "out of the box", which is it
> going to be?
> 
> I'd rather not choose, and instead offer options... but what are
> options without defaults? "A lot of work." ba dum dum.
> 
> Why not offer well documented, pre-baked configurations? Something a
> bit more fine grained than "nothing" and "everything" and "web"?.
> 
> Eh. I dunno. Guess JBoss tuning is sorta a profession in itself,
> neh... Do we really want to change that? ;)
> 
> I guess making standalone the "development" config is o.k., but
> somehow it sorta bugs me too. Something about polluting the
> difference between standalone and domain, which I don't think is so
> much about internal deployment options, as it is about external
> deployment stuff, if that makes sense. I'm a total newb to AS7, so,
> take it with a grain of salt.
> 
> :Den
> 
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