[jboss-dev] Splitting system and user deployments

[Emanuel Muckenhuber]

AFAIK the plan for AS6 is to ship a (almost) empty deploy/ directory. 
Where all system deployments are in a common location so that they don't 
need to be present in each server/${config}/ - which will reduce the 
distribution size.

So if we change something for 5.1 then we should consider that too. Not 
that we introduce a deploy-app which we are going to drop later on.

Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> Although I would like to see ./deploy reserved for user applications 
> (option C), it will wreak havoc :-).
> 
> Expect for breaking the testsuite and tck for a week (ok that's 
> temporary), every script, classpath or document out there will most 
> probably break.
> 
> I reckon the safest option is a variation of option A:
> 
> ./deploy
> ./deploy-apps
> 
> Leave things in deploy as-is and add a deploy-apps pre-configured to be 
> deployed last. If users want to use this instead of ./deploy, fine, if 
> not, no problem again. A directory listing will also show those together.
> 
> For AS 6 you can try more radical changes, IMHO.
> 
> Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> 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
>> --------
>> 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
>> --------
>> System = system
>> User = apps
>>
>> + Looks nice
>> - New locations may be hard to find
>>
>> Option C
>> --------
>> 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
>> --------
>> 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
>> --------
>> 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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