[jboss-as7-dev] Management Console: changing values that require a restart

[David Bosschaert]

Hi all,

Just like to get the general feeling about this.

In the Management Console and via the Detyped API you can in some cases 
modify configuration that requires a restart in order to become 
effective. I'd like to find out what the general feeling is about this:

Option 1: make it editable via the Console and display a message that 
changing this configuration requires a restart.

Option 2: make it viewable only.

So option 2 is clearly the safest option, but has a drawback that people 
can't use the console to specify this configuration, they'd have to 
crack open the .xml and edit that.

Option 1 gives people a fancy editor over standalone.xml / domain.xml 
but does have the disadvantage that the specified values don't get 
applied until the restart is done.

How do we generally handle this? Obviously, the best thing to do is 
change the behaviour so that the restart isn't needed by sometimes this 
isn't the highest priority within the realm of time constraints...

Cheers,

David