[wildfly-dev] SDDS (Silly Deployment Detector Subsystem)

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Thursday 23 May 2013 02:42 PM, Paul Robinson wrote:
> ...
> Also a student, on a course I teach, tried to deploy AS7 into AS7! 
> That was fun to debug. Would you be able to spot that ;-)
>
> Paul.

How did he try doing that?

-Jaikiran
>
>
> On 22 May 2013, at 08:22, Nicklas Karlsson <nickarls at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nickarls at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> (I know there has been some discussion on the topic (old community 
>> AS7-dev postings, IRC-chat with Tomaz Cerar etc)
>>
>>      Hanging around the forums, I've noticed that a frequent source 
>> of hard-to-debug deployment problems and other non-linear-behavior is 
>> that people often try to deploy archives with conflicting 
>> dependencies (various EE APIs/impls already on the AS, JDBC drivers, 
>> maven plugins, you name it).
>>
>>     Would it be worthwhile to implement a deployment processor 
>> (disabled by default) that would act as a helpful bouncer for the 
>> deployment archive? We could have a simple isSane(Archive) interface 
>> or something and people could write their own implementations (that 
>> would be picked up through the java services system or listed 
>> explicitly in some module?). Default implementation that come to mind is
>>
>> * Blacklisted packages (using Tattletale to warn users if they are 
>> bundling e.g. EE impls/APIs)
>> * Version limiter (using Tattletale to warn if deployment contains 
>> too old version of lib, e.g. Spring)
>> * Unused libs (using Tattletale to warn if deployment contains unused 
>> jars)
>> * Server provided libs (using Tattletale and JBoss Modules) to show 
>> which dependencies could be handled by a server module dependency)
>>
>> I'm not sure JBoss Modules contains any "directory" for 
>> which-modules-provides functionality but I guess the module root 
>> could be scanned and the resources indexed or something. Performance 
>> would not be an issue because it's still going to be faster that a 
>> user playing around with dependencies for days.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -- 
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