[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-2272) run.sh and run.bat for compatibility

[Brian Stansberry (Commented) (JIRA)]

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Brian Stansberry commented on AS7-2272:
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What came out of a quick but pretty thorough discussion of this at the usability workshop is:

I'm an AS7 newbie, perhaps a JBoss AS newbie, but not at all a "try out new stuff" newbie.

I download, unzip and do one of two things:

1) Read README.txt in the root
2) or, since it's a server I downloaded, it should start and do something. It's a web server so it probably has an http accessible welcome page with helpful information on it. So I look in bin and try to run the start script. A start script usually has a name that indicates it starts or runs something, so that's what I look for. 

The goal is to immediately get such people on the right path, without forcing them to right off the bat go download docs to figure out what to do. (IMO any output from the script should reference the README.txt, not "See the documentation...")

The README.txt should include a brief explanation of running a standalone server versus running a managed domain.

Any run.sh/bat should not actually attempt to launch a server, because the configuration and behavior of the server will be different from previous AS releases.
                
> run.sh and run.bat for compatibility
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>                 Key: AS7-2272
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2272
>             Project: Application Server 7
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Scripts
>    Affects Versions: 7.1.0.Alpha1
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Rich Sharples
>            Assignee: Brian Stansberry
>              Labels: eap6-ux
>             Fix For: 7.1.0.Beta1
>
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> Many seasoned JBoss users expect to be able to run bin/run.sh (bin\run.bat). Now deprecated these scripts inform the user what to use instead : eg.
> run.sh is no longer supported. The scripts standalone.sh (standalone.bat on Windows) should be used to start a single instance. and domain.sh (domain.bat on Windows) should be used to start in domain mode. See the documentation for further information. 

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