I'm very much in favor of being able to download a war or an ear and drop it in place.
But... So far some of the instructions that I've seen make a "download-and-install" approach difficult. For example, changing the application name and email subject line require editing a plexus configuration file under the WEB-INF/classes directory ( http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUMUSER/Deploying). I don't see such modifications as removing a jar file from the lib directory (as suggested for the derby jar in http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUMUSER/Continuum+on+Tomcat) as being a problem, given the graphical zip file editors that are available, but editing and replacing a configuration file inside a war or an ear is a little more complicated (and therefor error prone). Also, such manual edits cannot be easily automated. On 2/28/07, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We should be able support anything people can test and document. The best tested will probably remain the plexus app server and/or jetty, using derby. - Brett On 01/03/2007, at 12:41 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 2/28/07, Emmanuel Venisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> users download the war file and deploy it, they can use the >> standalone app too. > > Is the WAR expected to run on any app server? Or are we going to > support a specific app server? Or a few? > > What about databases? Are we going to assume Derby? I'd be fine with > that, just checking.