[jbosstools-dev] AS 7 now seem to provide a stable Java API YAY!

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Andre/Rob,

From this night irc chat (yes - my jetlag woke me up after 2 hrs sleep ...):

controller-client in AS 7 seem to have small dependency set and according to Brian - it will be portable/work across versions.
Worth then taking a look at it ...but be careful - might be worth it ensuring its encapsulated so if incompatibilities arises we aren't 
too screwed.

This means you actually can use a somewhat typed API to talk to AS7 (hopefully EAP 6) and get a fully typed deployment api.

See details below.

maxandersen
Nihility: bstansberry: btw. i'm still confused on what compatibility level  the java api will have ? when we talked at devoxx I understood as the java api would have same problems as older AS's (i.e. I would need to compile/run against the matching runtime jars to get it to work) …is that no longer true ?
06:32
bstansberry
that is no longer true
06:32
smcgowan
nihility:  the tests are running locally but won't be able to run in Hudson till I can resolve lookups to jdbc/DB1
06:33
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06:34
bstansberry
maxandersen: the library we use for the "detyped"  request and response objects will remain compatible. the wire protocol will remain compatible. the simple API to make requests will remain compatible
06:35
maxandersen
and this is something more than dmr, correct ?
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06:36
maxandersen
bstansberry: any way to know which API will remain "highly" compatible ? some specific jar or java package ?
06:36
bstansberry
the simple API? it's the controller-client module in the AS source tree
that's really the API, then it's maven deps
right now it's depending on another AS module jboss-as-protocol for the transport stuff, but that will be replaced in a later beta with something long-term
06:39
maxandersen
bstansberry: thats *great* news...
so this api currently seem to cover "raw" domain model operations and hten some specific api for deployment… correct?
bstansberry: will that include more before final or is that the basic goal ?
06:41
bstansberry
I don't want to go much beyond that
06:41
maxandersen
bstansberry: but thats great then
bstansberry: that simplifies things a lot for us then...
bstansberry: at least I hope so 
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06:42
bstansberry
yes, that's the idea
06:42
maxandersen
bstansberry: so this would give us "easy" remote deployment I would guess 
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maxandersen
bstansberry: does the remote api support or plan to support incremental updates or is that out of scope ?
rawbdor: good news for you and Andre 
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06:43
bstansberry
not sure what you mean by incremental updates
06:44
maxandersen
just update lets say foo.war/index.html and not the whole 20 MB war...
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06:47
maxandersen
bstansberry: that would reduce the need for our file and ssh support for AS7 
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and users could just stay on one of the deployments mechanism instead of toggling between them too much.
06:47
bstansberry
oh, yeah, incremental is out of scope


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