[jboss-as7-dev] Web UI: Profile & host sections mutable?

[Brian Stansberry]

On 2/14/11 11:35 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>
> On Feb 14, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> I think we should proceed on the assumption that it won't be possible to
>>>> have a subsystem configured which has a dependency on another subsystem
>>>> which is missing.
>>>
>>> Yes, but to build tooling around that (web UI), I would need to know subsystem interdependencies upfront.
>>> (i.e. meta data). Otherwise I cannot put this feature into the console.
>>>
>>
>> Is that really a requirement, i.e. making things foolproof? I totally
>> agree it's highly desirable and something we should see if we can
>> improve, but is it a requirement? If people are trying to add profiles
>> (or subsystems) to running domains via the web UI, they are either going
>> to be in dev mode or they've tested what they are doing in advance.
>
> I completely agree. But for this exact reason I would say it doesn't even need to be possible through the web UI.
> IMO we can easily consider this out of scope.
>

Haha, I have to do better at getting my head fully out of core API mode 
and into web UI mode. So, I agree; just because the core management API 
makes something possible doesn't mean there has to be a polished GUI for 
it. We need to allow adding profiles in the core API, otherwise to add a 
new profile to a domain users would have to down the DC, edit domain.xml 
and restart DC. The web UI is a whole different animal.

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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat