[keycloak-dev] Notes on KEYCLOAK-795: Move Auth Server into KC subsystem

[Bill Burke]

On 11/4/2014 5:54 AM, Stan Silvert wrote:
> On 11/4/2014 2:51 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>> Ok, we'll not include this in Beta1.
>>
>> I'd like to see a solution to deploying providers that:
>>
>> * Can be scripted
>> * Makes life easy for developers
> I assume you mean provider developers?  We haven't taken anything away
> from them, so it's at least no harder.  They will be able to either use
> exploded mode or run a script.
>> * Can also be done while server is not running (I'm confused to why the overlays has to be uploaded through a CLI, and can't just be copied to a directory and manually added to standalone.xml)
> That's a long, long story.   Originally, I wanted to have a directory
> for overlays and make it work sort of like a deployment scanner.
> Unfortunately, I found that is impossible for overlays without some
> substantial changes to WildFly.  Overlays can't use a deployment scanner
> of any kind.
>

Why do we need overlays again?

> Deployments and overlays are never manually added to standalone.xml.
> That's just the way WildFly works.  You either upload with a tool like
> CLI or web console, or (if standalone) you let a deployment scanner find
> it.  For domain mode, only uploading is allowed.

Requiring a CLI is so Webspherish...Surprised Jason et. al. thought that 
was a good idea.


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