[jboss-as7-dev] the cli status

Jason T. Greene jason.greene at redhat.com
Fri Mar 4 15:01:21 EST 2011


BTW Max, think of our low level interface as being a better version of 
twiddle (old JMX CLI).

On 3/4/11 1:58 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> This looks great. We definitely needed to get the low-level stuff in
> first as we need to support all possible changes. The more task oriented
> higher level operations is something that should come in as a second
> phase, but by nature they will be more limited, so will require some
> thought on determining what the common operations are, and what level of
> detail is needed per command. (Obviously things like start/stop server
> and deploy etc)
>
>
> On 3/4/11 12:09 PM, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
>> Yes, it's low level. But it had to pass this mark too ;)
>>
>> About '/' for the commands, I did it on purpose actually. Because I
>> expected operations to be much more popular than commands (at least in
>> the current state of things). It would be more annoying to prefix
>> operations with '/' to me. Perhaps, there could be command mode and an
>> operation mode, or something else. I'll think about it.
>>
>> But the first line after the cli starts says 'type /help for...' ;)
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> Alexey
>>
>> On 03/04/2011 06:35 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> Hi Alexey,
>>>
>>> I tried the CLI for the first time today and I must say the syntax is complete opposite to anything else I know/tried.
>>>
>>> i.e. when starting a cli I would expect being able to type "help" ...not /help
>>>
>>> for me / would be much better of being what you use as a prefix shortcut to "execute" operations.
>>>
>>> Beyond that I really find the interface too low level; not saying the features that are there shouldn't be there
>>> but we should add some easier to get to features than by doing raw operations.
>>>
>>> Just my first 5 minute impression - i'll try read your new docs and see if that can get me pass and actually execute something ;)
>>>
>>> /max
>>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 17:33, Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
>>>
>>>> I started an article on the CLI here
>>>> http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16581
>>>>
>>>> which describes the currently supported features. Brian has just pulled
>>>> it into the master.
>>>>
>>>> You are welcome to give feedback, compensate my English and doc writing
>>>> skills...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alexey
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>>> /max
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>>>
>>>
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