[jboss-as7-dev] Requirements and Design Proposal: AS7 TestSuite

[Brian Stansberry]

On 3/30/11 11:50 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In other words, you want us to sacrifice things like the ability to have
>>>> a testsuite that works on domain mode and responds to deployment as fast
>>>> as possible because you chose to use the FS API?
>>>
>>>
>>> btw. i'm still in the blind on what alternative we have to FS api....
>>>
>>> Where is the tool/way to deploy to AS7 without writing a custom client that uses
>>> the native api ?
>>
>> Alexey is working on the CLI support right now.
>
> Ok, i'll ask him how he do it then.
>
>> A contributor also did this in like a couple of hours:
>> https://github.com/jamezp/jboss-as-deploy-plugin
>
> That code is using as far as I can see the Java API which I will *not* work across multiple versions
> unless you guys guarantee serialization and API will not change ?
>
> Last time we had the discussion (Devoxx) it was said to me that if I wanted portability
> I (and other tools) would need to use the HTTP exposed API (or the file API).
>
> Has that changed ?
>

Yes. The java API will have the same compatibility guarantees as HTTP.


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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat