[keycloak-dev] keep exploded war and add exploded themes

[Bill Burke]

On 7/21/2014 4:35 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
>> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2014 10:48:21 PM
>> Subject: [keycloak-dev] keep exploded war and add exploded themes
>>
>> I want to always keep an exploded WAR.  Additionally, I'd like to
>> explode all built-in themes in WEB-INF/classes.  People are going to
>> want to see how its done and will need concrete examples.
>
> What's the use-case for the exploded WAR?
>
> I don't see any need in exploding the themes, they're already exploded to standalone/configuration/themes.
>

Whoops, forgot about that.

>>
>> For example, one of the things I want to do with Federation plugins is
>> that users can create their own management page for their plugin.  They
>> will need to see examples/templates from the existing admin consoole.
>
> I don't think that's a very elegant way to "extend" the console. A much better approach would be to then investigate UberFire or Hawt.
>
> My idea for managing providers was that we'd add a generic mechanism for configuring. That would be much simpler to use for folks than having to create (and maintain) their own additional pages in the admin console. I thought we had agreed that we where doing that for 1.0.beta4?
>

1) Uberfire/Hawt isn't going to provide a mechanism to plug in a REST 
backend, are they?
2) I'd like LDAP to be treated as a plugin, not a special case, yet, I 
want a nice admin screen for it as it is a feature everybody wants.

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