On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Sameera Jayasoma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sagara, Pradeep and myself had a discussion on this. Here are the notes. > > > - Came up with a P2 based solution to install various runtime > extensions into AS. > - Runtimes will be created as P2 features. Required jar files will be > treated as regular files and will be copied to the CARBON_HOME/lib/runtimes > directory using default P2 touchpoints. > - Once a runtime is installed, user will have to update a > configuration file to include the installed runtime. > - User guide will be create to explain this process. > > For AS 5.2.0 we will ship following Classloader Runtime Environments with the distribution. * Tomcat * Carbon * CXF Following Classloader Runtime Environments can be installed through P2. * J2EE * CXF ( This is optional - basically this is to install CXF runtime into other Carbon servers together with Webapp feature only using P2) Piyum will look into this from AS team. Thanks ! > > - > > > Thanks, > Sameera. > > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Supun Malinga <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Azeez, >> >> So in the runtime environments scenario, we have some duplication between >> runtime vs the plugins. But the argument in here is that a user should be >> able to use/sxpose the runtime only and get their job done. >> For eg: user has a jax-rs application. So he will expose the cxf runtime >> env. to the app. But he won't expose carbon. So in this case we need to >> have all cxf dependencies too within the cxf runtime env. >> >> thanks, >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think the size can be reduced a lot by reviewing & removing duplicated >>> jars & unnecessary stuff, before we start thinking of P2 >>> >>> Azeez >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Sagara Gunathunga <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Size of the AS distribution becoming very large with last few releases. >>>> AS 4.1.2 is about 160 MB and AS 5.1.0 is around 200 MB my current >>>> understanding is AS size will become around 230/240 MB in AS 5.2.0 release >>>> with JSF, JPA and JTA support, basically once we support for J2EE-WP spec >>>> AS end up with extra ~100 MB. >>>> >>>> WSO2 product/features can be installed to AS through P2 repo hence >>>> it's not an issue here. But still it's not clear whether we could use any >>>> P2 based solution to add Classlaoder Environments (CLE) to the basic AS >>>> distribution. >>>> >>>> For AS 5.2.0 we have following CLEs addition to basic Carbon and Tomcat >>>> CLEs. >>>> >>>> 1. CXF ( ~20 to ~25 MB) >>>> 2. J2EE ( ~ 30 MB) >>>> >>>> >>>> It's not possible to use P2 mechanism as it is to install CLEs because >>>> those are not instilled to OSGi runtime instead they stay out side the OSGi >>>> runtime. Following are the steps we need to perform to add a CLE to AS. >>>> >>>> 1. Modify and add an entry to the >>>> "webapp-classloading-environments.xml" file located on >>>> "repository/conf/tomcat" directory. >>>> >>>> 2. Copy a directory with set of Jar files into the "lib/runtimes" >>>> directory. >>>> >>>> 3. Copy some samples to the "samples" directory (Optional). >>>> >>>> >>>> Above tasks can be easily done with small Ant script but it would be >>>> much better to use P2 as it's the platform level mechanism to add new >>>> features. Any idea how we could do this using P2 ? >>>> >>>> Thanks ! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sagara Gunathunga >>>> >>>> Senior Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >>>> V.P Apache Web Services; http://ws.apache.org/ >>>> Linkedin; http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara >>>> Blog ; http://ssagara.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Afkham Azeez* >>> Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com >>> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ >>> * <http://www.apache.org/>** >>> email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 >>> blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* >>> twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> >>> * >>> linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* >>> * >>> * >>> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Supun Malinga, >> >> Senior Software Engineer, >> WSO2 Inc. >> http://wso2.com >> http://wso2.org >> email - [email protected] <[email protected]> >> mobile - 071 56 91 321 >> > > > > -- > Sameera Jayasoma, > Architect, > > WSO2, Inc. (http://wso2.com) > email: [email protected] > blog: http://sameera.adahas.org > twitter: https://twitter.com/sameerajayasoma > flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sameera-jayasoma/collections > > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > -- Sagara Gunathunga Senior Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com V.P Apache Web Services; http://ws.apache.org/ Linkedin; http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara Blog ; http://ssagara.blogspot.com
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