[keycloak-dev] examples/distro reworked/improved/finalized PLEASE TRY!

[Bill Burke]

On 1/9/2014 10:18 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> I haven't had much time to play with this yet, but will do today/tomorrow. Although if you're not accepting PRs after today, there may not be any point? There's two outstanding PRs related to examples are you going to merge those?
>
> Some comments on the distributions:
>
> Instead of having these download bundles I think it would be better to have downloads for each individual thing:
>
> keycloak-bundle-<version>.zip
>
> - keycloak-<version>
>    - bin
>    - deployments/auth-server.war (exploded)
>    - ..
>
> keycloak-war.zip
>
> - auth-server.war (exploded)
> - auth-server.war.dodeploy
> - keycloak-ds.xml
>
> keycloak-wildfly-adapter.zip
> keycloak-eap-adapter.zip
> keycloak-as7-adapter.zip
>

Poms are set up to do this so not a problem.

> Reason for this is that it allows devs to download what they want rather than a huge bundle. For example:
>
> * To install the server all you want is the server
> * If running Keycloak on OpenShift all you need is the one adapter for whatever application server you're using
>
> We could move examples into a separate github project and the documentation would instruct people to get it from there. That way we can add/edit examples after a release. This is the way JDF does it, and I would think that eventually Keycloak examples would be moved into there.
>

Not everybody knows how to use Github :)  Plus, you need examples tied 
to release versions as there may be differences between them.

> It may also be good to have these zips available in Maven central as that makes it simpler for other projects to build their own distributions that includes Keycloak. I can imagine AeroGear guys may be interested in that.
>

Simple enough.


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