[jboss-as7-dev] Providing server name on command line?

[Brian Stansberry]

On 3/29/11 9:54 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
>
> Am 29.03.2011 um 16:20 schrieb Brian Stansberry:
>> Users shouldn't be able to change the name of running servers. (Maybe
>> they can, but that would be a bug.)
>
> Ok, great.
>
>> If you need to be able to read the server name from the OS process info,
>> it should be a regular feature, not depending on something like the
>> -Dorg.jboss.boot.log.file that we're free to change.<hack-alert>If need
>
> Exactly :)
>
>> be could add a bogus arg to org.jboss.as.server like --name
>> server-one.</hack-alert>
>
> Could this be a property like -Dorg.jboss.as.server.name=server-one ?
>

Does it need to be?

The <hack-alert/> referred to the whole notion of adding extra info to 
the command used to launch the process just so that info's externally 
visible. I actually prefer passing it as an arg to org.jboss.as.server.


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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat