[jbosstools-dev] File Filters suggestions

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:03:01 +0200, Galder Zamarreno <galder.zamarreno at redhat.com> wrote:

> Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:12:49 +0200, Galder Zamarreno <galder.zamarreno at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Couple of suggestions: one of the most likely file filters people might
>>> create for servers is for conf/jboss-log4j.xml, so that they can change
>>> logging...etc. So, couple of suggestions here:
>>>
>>> 1.- The default root directory of a new file filter should be the server
>>> root folder and not the deploy folder:
>>>
>>> No: /home/galder/access/eap-rel/4.3.0.ga.cp01/server/189901/deploy
>>> Yes: /home/galder/access/eap-rel/4.3.0.ga.cp01/server/189901
>>>
>>> 2.- Ability to define default "File Filters" for new Servers with
>>> *-log4j.xml as example.
>>
>> I guess what you are saying is that you want to be able to set the root folder to something
>> else than the deploy dir since the deploy dir could actually be *outside* the server.
>
> No, read above, I didn't talk about having the deploy folder somewhere else.

Today only the configured deploy folder is possible; if we default it to the server root instead
and the users deploy folder is *outside* the server root we loose the ability to look into deployed things.

Hence what is needed as far as i see that we allow you to set the root folder freely; not just to deploy folder.

-max