[keycloak-dev] Appliance dist and WildFly feature packs

[Bill Burke]

On 9/16/2014 5:59 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> WildFly 9 introduces features packs which seams ideal for us to build Keycloak upon.
>
> I'd like to start a "wildfly-9" branch of Keycloak that uses feature-packs and WildFly's built in mechanism to create the appliance distro. This would replace our current custom appliance-dist. Further I'd like us to have two flavours of Keycloak:
>
> * "appliance-lite": minimum Keycloak server only dist. For those that want a standalone Keycloak server. Builds on WildFly "web-lite" dist, but we need to add Hibernate, RestEasy and Connectors (datasources) as well
> * "appliance": full WildFly dist. For those that want to co-locate their JavaEE apps with the Keycloak server. Builds on the full WildFly dist.
>

We've discussed this before.

The downside to a stripped down keycloak distro is the examples can't 
run out of the box anymore and users will have to  download a full 
Wildfly distro anyways and also configure it to run on different ports. 
  They will have to edit example config files to point to the correct 
ports.  Basically a lot more work to get things up and running for the 
first time.

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Bill Burke
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