[jboss-as7-dev] How to install a JDBC driver as a module via CLI or console?

[Andrig Miller]

I think Jason comment about the "Gold Master" is a very good one. It's what the vast majority of our customers do, so I think that the use case for having data sources and their driver be a module will be more common than we may have thought before. 

Andy 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Brian Stansberry" <brian.stansberry at redhat.com>
> To: jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2011 8:02:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] How to install a JDBC driver as a module
> via CLI or console?

> On 6/6/11 2:15 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 6, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> >
> >>> when creating a datasource.
> >> As a deployment, it's easy. But deploying it as a module is more
> >> involved and most of it is
> >> boilerplatehttp://community.jboss.org/wiki/DataSourceConfigurationinAS7#Installing_a_JDBC_driver_as_a_module.
> >> So I was thinking if we should simplify adding it as a module via
> >> admin console (autogenerate the module.xml and other stuff based
> >> on
> >> the user input) or even the CLI perhaps. Having said that, I don't
> >> know how many users will be opting for deploying the JDBC driver
> >> as a
> >> module.
> >
> >
> >
> > The question is: why would you chose a module configuration opposed
> > to a
> > deployment?
> > To be honest, I cannot tell the difference. It will probably have a
> > different scope/visibility, no?
> >

> This post on a separate thread explains the use case for using a
> module:

> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-as7-dev/2011-June/002313.html

> At this point the assumption is that modules are provisioned by the
> end
> user as part of their process of install the AS on the system. That
> is,
> the users copy the module to the modules/ dir. As Jason mentions
> above,
> at some point we'd like to add capabilities to the management layer
> to
> assist users with this. But it's not going to happen for 7.0 and
> isn't a
> critical requirement for 7.1.

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