Sounds like a big win for convenience, and clearly a regression relative to the last release of Geode that SBDG picked up (1.6). Thanks for clarifying what is at stake.
+1 for including both fixes > On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:50 PM, Udo Kohlmeyer <u...@apache.com> wrote: > > Hi there Owen, > > I apologize if it is not clear. > > GEODE-7241 is a regression where the published artifact "geode-web" and > "geode-web-api" were published as jars and not wars. > > NOW, why is it critical for 1.9.x... Well, the answer is fairly short. In > Spring Data Geode, there is an ability to start/bootstrap a server using > Spring Data Geode(SDG) only. This feature can be used for testing as well as > starting a Server using SDG. In order to start the server using SDG, all that > is required is to add the geode-web + geode-web-api artifacts onto the > classpath as a maven/gradle dependency. There is no more requirement to > download the project and reference libs or using GFSH to start the server. > > WHEN the extension went from war -> jar, this functionality was broken. The > latest version of SDG (2.2.x) will be based on Geode 1.9. and not 1.10+ which > means that SDG will not gain that functionality. SDG would have to wait for > its next release 2.3.x, which is still quite some way off. > > Usually this is not a big thing, but given Spring's prescribed manner of > handling versions of dependent libraries, the version of Geode cannot be > changed and only patch versions are allowed. So, in order to address the > regression, a patch to 1.9.x is requested. > > Hope that this explains it a little better. > > --Udo > > On 10/7/19 3:50 PM, Owen Nichols wrote: >> I don’t yet have a clear understanding of what makes these critical, >> especially GEODE-7241. Can you elaborate, including: >> * Are these fixes already in 1.10? If not, would a 1.10.1 patch be >> required as well? >> * What is the impact of not including each of these fixes? Is there a >> workaround? >> >> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:44 AM Jens Deppe <jde...@pivotal.io> wrote: >> >>> I'd like to propose adding these two fixes to release/1.9.2 >>> >>> GEODE-7261 ensures that the Admin REST service can start when Spring Boot >>> Data Geode is used to launch a server. >>> >>> GEODE-7241 publishes our various war artifacts to maven. This ensures that, >>> in the context of starting a SBDG server, the necessary REST wars can be >>> made available in order to start the required REST services. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> --Jens >>>