[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss ESB] - Trailblazer out-of-the-box experience

[mark.little@jboss.com]

The machine I was building the TB on had a disk failure last night, so I've been trying to set this up from scratch on Mac OS X. Not something I've had to do in a while. I'd forgotten how many steps you have to go through. Some observations:

(i) we should have a single rule for configuring and running the demo. Multiple rules are fine for the user who wants to go through each step at a time, but I think the 80/20 rule needs to apply here.

(ii) the configuration step should cache the answers from each run and echo them back if you want to re-run. That way you don't have to answer all of the same set of questions again if only one thing needs changing. Where I've used this approach before you see the default answer in [], so for example:

[input] Enter the path to the root of your local JBoss Application Server Installation (required for access to JBoss libraries):

would be

[input] Enter the path to the root of your local JBoss Application Server Installation (required for access to JBoss libraries): [/usr/local/jboss-4.0.4]

and

[input] Enter the host address of the JBoss Application Server on which your deployed JBoss ESB is running (for "localhost" simply press return):

would be

[input] Enter the host address of the JBoss Application Server on which your deployed JBoss ESB is running: [25]

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