[jboss-as7-dev] restart operation?

[John Mazzitelli]

I have a question on the reload-required and restart-required states.

I see in the root resource, if you know you need to reload to pick up config changes, you can invoke the reload op ("/:reload)").

In the case of restart required, obviously the JVM needs to be restarted.

Has anyone given any thought of providing some sort of restart operation on the root resource, like "/:restart", in which the AS7 will actually exit the VM with a specific exit code (say, something odd like 155 or whatever - e.g. System.exit(155)) which can then be interpreted by the parent process (standalone.sh) to say "oh, the JVM exited, but the server wants me to restart it immediately". So standalone.sh script could then turn around and immediately restart the vm again.

This would help things such as customized installers that want to re-configure AS7 to run with a particular set of config settings that are needed for a particular app to run but will not require the user to perform manual restarting of the VM after the installer does its thing (as is the case for what I'm doing with RHQ/JON).