[jboss-as7-dev] Definitely no subsystem support in the domain controller?

[Darran Lofthouse]

Just want to double check one last time that there will be no support 
for subsystems in the domain controller.

For securing the management APIs the backing infrastructure that we 
would need to be able to connect to is most likely already covered by 
the login modules included within PicketBox.  The integration of this 
with JBossAS 7 is also already working to provide a nicer schema when 
defining a security domain.

http://community.jboss.org/thread/154409?tstart=0

If a schema already exists then the benefit of re-using it really means 
that administrators only need to learn how to configure these modules 
once rather than once for the management API and once for the actual 
subsystems used by servers.

The first problem is that the existing parsing of the configuration will 
be based around the detyped API and performing operations in the context 
of a subsystem.  Secondly operations to operate on this configuration 
will also be in that context.

In the context of the domain controller configuration we could still 
re-implement the parsing and operations without the dependency of a 
server and the subsystem so at least the configuration appears the same 
even if the integration with the server is different.

However the next issue that crops up using the PicketBox modules is the 
dependence on things like JNDI and Datasources, probably not a massive 
issue to solve but has there been any consideration yet regarding how to 
manage datasources in the domain controller process?

Regards,
Darran Lofthouse.