[jboss-dev] Splitting system and user deployments

[Jason T. Greene]

Hi Everyone,

One topic that seems to come up often, but yet we never get around to 
addressing, is adding a user specific deploy directory that is empty by 
default [1].

If we go this route, what should we call such directories?

I added a few

Pros = + Cons = -

Option A
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System = deploy
User = apps

+ Users that expect system configuration files in deploy (like tomcat) 
won't be caught off-guard
- Users might not notice the apps directory and put things in deploy anyway

Option B
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System = system
User = apps

+ Looks nice
- New locations may be hard to find

Option C
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System = system
User = deploy

+ Users can still put apps in deploy, as they expect, and they no longer 
see system deployments
- Users will have to find the new config location


Option D
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System = deploy/system
User = deploy/apps

+ Looks the nicest
+ Not too hard to find the new location
- Users will put things in deploy and it won't work!


Option E
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System = deploy-system
Apps =   deploy-apps

+ Putting files in the deploy dir is no longer a problem since it 
doesn't exist
+ Not too hard to find the new location
- Deploy no longer exists
- Kind of ugly


[1] https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-5954

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Jason T. Greene
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