[wildfly-dev] Start Up Scripts

[James R. Perkins]

While taking a look at a change to the start up scripts I'm reminded on 
what a PITA it is to get consistent behavior across platforms. There are 
4 scripts, not including daemon style scripts, to launch WildFly. In 
addition to the 4 scripts there are 4 I guess extension scripts. Any 
change needed is likely needed in 4 of the files.

I've created an API to launch WildFly [1]. I'm proposing we could use 
the API to launch WildFly. We could nix the *.conf and *.conf.bat files 
and go to two properties files; a standalone.properties and a 
domain.properties. The normal start up scripts would remain, but be 
reduced to only setup essential environment variables and invoke a main 
class in the launcher API[2]. Note this is by no means complete, just an 
example of how it could be done.

If has any opinions on this let me know. It would allow making changes a 
lot easier.

[1]: https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/pull/28
[2]: https://gist.github.com/jamezp/2033be603da4737ac571

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James R. Perkins
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