On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:52:12 +0000, Bas Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The goal would be to have simple deployable application modules, quite >like a "WAR" file in J2EE. Let's codename it "AOLserver Application >Package", or AAP for short. (yes, that is Dutch for "monkey") > >This would give the advantage that it would be easy to deploy any open >source applications written for AOLserver without having to copy loads >of files into the right location or do much editing the global nsd.tcl. >Just drop it in and go. You could even do it the Tomcat way; just drop >the .aap file in the "applications" directory and it will unpack and >bind it to a url automatically. Could AOLServer use tcl's vfs layer to directly mount say, a zipfile or a tclkit file? This would make for a very nice deployment method and works well elsewhere. Since the configuration file is a tcl program, it could include configuration from other files. Maybe an AAP package could include a file that is to be inserted into the main config.tcl at server startup to load whatever modules and database pools it needs. The big downside is it would need a server restart to load a new package. Whatever you come up with, please don't have the configuration in a few dozen xml files ala tomcat. Just because everyone else does it that way doesn't mean it's a good way to do it. -J -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
