[jboss-as7-dev] dmr: server instances?

[Emanuel Muckenhuber]

On 03/18/2011 03:45 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> On 3/18/11 7:03 AM, Heiko Braun wrote:
>>
>> is the 'server' node the element that contains server instances?
>
> Yes; that's where you access the actual running server.
>
> The operations to actually start/stop/restart the server and check their
> status are under "server-config" which I'm not happy about. Not
> intuitive. It's that way because of a kind of chicken-and-egg problem.
>
> Emanuel, WDYT about a more sophisticated ProxyController for the
> servers? Installed by the ServerAddHandler. It handles the lifecycle and
> status ops directly; proxies the rest. Where it gets complicated is
> things like read-resource, read-resource-description, read-attribute,
> all of which would require custom handling. It also make a server
> resource an odd duck, since it's resource description varies depending
> on whether the server is started.
>

Yes, we could think of doing something like that - maybe we should just 
create a ManagedServer for all configured servers and make it the proxy. 
It should be aware of the lifecyle/state of the server anyway and also 
holds the associated managed connection.