[wildfly-dev] Wildfly provisioning tools and packaging format

[Darran Lofthouse]

On 03/07/14 17:24, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> - The ability to customise the default config (not sure how this will
> work yet. A yuck solution would be xslt, but no one likes that. A nicer
> solution could be some kind of CLI script that is run on first boot).

I think we should avoid XML manipulation as much as we can, really it is 
just our chosen approach to persist the servers config - there is 
nothing to stop us from changing to something different so persistence 
format could even become something selected when creating a distribution.

CLI commands could be very nice, the tool could even run the server in 
admin mode to execute them and there have been various discussions on 
running the server in the CLI or the CLI in the server.

Could this also be a time to consider all configuration for the server 
starting from CLI commands?  I believe our current approach is an 
evolution from where we used to just have fully defined configurations 
in the codebase, assembling XML fragments enabled re-use.  But now that 
tooling to create a distribution is being considered again maybe 100% if 
the configuration could come from defined management ops.