[jboss-dev] VHosts in AS 6 and naming

[Remy Maucherat]

Hi,

In AS 5 (I believe), we added the capability to deploy a webapp to
multiple vhosts. While nice in practice, this causes the need for a
hack where one webapp can be deployed multiple times to each specified
vhost, as well as automagic vhost creation. I've never liked this
behavior (I think vhost creation should require some administrator
intervention), and this hack is now causing problems with the new
naming. It should be possible to drop this feature to a large extent.

Instead, what could happen is that the list of specified vhosts would
now need to either point to one single existing host (any non existing
vhosts would be added as aliases to that vhost). If nothing exists,
they would be added as aliases to the default host.

This should actually cover most reasonable use cases.

Rémy