[wildfly-dev] Batch Deployments

[James R. Perkins]

I'm working on allowing batch jobs to be viewed in the management model 
and I'm running into some issues.

Batch jobs require a XML file to start. Per the batch spec that the XML 
files can be found outside of the archive, for example somewhere on the 
file system. If the job XML isn't found there it looks in the 
META-INF/batch-jobs directory for the job XML.

Batch repositories are global for all applications. All deployments can 
see all other deployments job status and query information about the 
jobs. They can't start or restart jobs for other deployments, but 
they're viewable.

Here lies the problem. It seems batch jobs, at least from the management 
view, should be limited to the deployment the job was run on. I'm 
considering only allowing job XML files in the META-INF/batch-jobs to be 
viewable via management. Though there is still a chance two different 
deployments could use the same job name (the name of the job XML file) 
which would show the jobs run by the two different deployments with the 
same job name.

I can't think of another way to isolate jobs from the repository to link 
to a deployment. If anyone else has any ideas let me know. There is no 
spec for the repository so we can do whatever we want really.

-- 
James R. Perkins
JBoss by Red Hat