[jboss-as7-dev] Configuration conundrum with Express

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>> For the general case Scott suggested us is that we support executing
>> a list of .cli operations during deploy - but that would then be very
>> specific for JBoss tools which is why I was having high hopes for the
>> support for .cli archives that I believe Jesper was working on since
>> that would handle the deploy/undeploy cases in a way that is sharable
>> between the various tools - but not sure where that went.
> 
> Their are major problems with a CLI deployment:
> 
> 1. Guaranteeing undeploy actually undoes what it did, which may or may not be possible
> 2. VM crash forcing a relaunch, forcing re-running non-idempotent operations
> 3. Lack of visibility into what global state each CLI deployment touches


yeah I understand that. It's the exact same problems users and devs of the various tools that need to setup and run an app on the server today
 - maybe large pieces of this just isn't meant to be automated.

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