[keycloak-dev] Release next Monday or Tuesday

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Friday, 10 January, 2014 4:34:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Release next Monday or Tuesday
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/10/2014 9:43 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> >> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Friday, 10 January, 2014 2:30:47 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Release next Monday or Tuesday
> >>
> >> I'm fine with this as long as no further things pop up.  This is an
> >> alpha release and so long as it is functional, we're good.
> >
> > Sure, I can sort out the issues I listed, except it would be good if you
> > could have a look at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-256.
> >
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about the JSF example addition.  I want all the examples to
> >> work off of the appliance (and pre-configured as marek suggested), and
> >> the appliance will be trimmed down to remove CDI/JSF in the future.
> >> People don't use JSP anymore, but so what?  The examples are very
> >> minimal on purpose because they focus on keycloak.  But, I've always
> >> wanted nice example applications in addition to these simple examples
> >> (like event juggler) so users can also see other technologies
> >> interacting with keycloak.
> >
> > Makes sense. Just one question though, once the WildFly subsystem is ready,
> > wouldn't the trimmed down appliance also not have support for
> > JavaEE/deployments altogether? I think it makes sense to have two options
> > for Keycloak (embedded in a fully functional WildFly/EAP, and a standalone
> > that doesn't allow deployments of any sort).
> >
> 
> We need support for:
> 
> jca/jta - jdbc connection pool
> JPA
> Servlet
> 
> JAX-RS/Jackson comes bundled with keycloak war.
> 
> Not sure yet how we'll deal with clustering yet,no there may be some
> other pieces we need.  I'm pretty sure there's something interesting
> things we can do with the Wildfly Domain Controller to make clustering
> really nice.
> 
> IMO, if users want something different than the appliance, then they
> have to download and install the war distribution themselves.  So, only
> one appliance download IMO.  Two many options is confusing.
> 

Sure - my point was that I don't think a trimmed down standalone appliance shouldn't support JavaEE deployments (i.e. standalone/deployments and hot-deployment stuff is ripped out) so wouldn't matter if examples are JSP or JSF.

> Bill
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