[jboss-as7-dev] Configuration conundrum with Express

[Scott Stark]

So the plan, and what I'll be working on this week is to have a batch 
CLI script that exists in the openshift express application repository, 
when pushed to the express server, is run against the jbossas server CLI 
interface.

One issue that is coming up is the need to refer to environment 
variables for things like the interfaces/ports for socket services.  
These values are a property of the execution environment the server is 
being administered in, and activation of a mysql datasource for example 
depends on the user "embedding" the mysql cartridge into the jbossas7 
openshift application. To run the same configuration against a local 
server in jboss tools, we would need to allow for the typical 
${env-var:default} type of syntax. Right now the CLI does not do any 
system property or environment variable replacement. I think this is a 
feature that needs to be added to allow the scripts to be portable 
across provisioning environments.

On 10/17/11 10:29 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> 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:
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>> 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
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> 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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