On Nov 16, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
1) I think the standalone compiler is the only necessary JAR, and I
had volunterred to try to get it onto iBiblio at one point, but didn't
actually get around to it. It would be great if someone else could do
that. Someone (Jacek?) pointed me to a writeup on how to get
arbitrary JARs onto ibiblio, and I can pass that along if it would be
helpful.
5) I think port validation was tricky, because IIRC, each field is
validated independently. I don't think there's a good way to validate
a whole screen at a time, much less a group of ports on a group of
screens, some of which you may not have seen yet. If this turns out
to be hard, I don't think it would be the end of the world to skip it
for now, since presumably the user knows not to create port conflicts.
This was the demise of the M5 installer: it was very easy to get port
conflicts. I was thinking of some kind of verification class used at
the end that made sure no property values matching some pattern had the
same values.
7) I think we could safely install all the schemas if you install J2EE
features, and none of the schemas otherwise. It's not quite perfect,
but close enough.
True, but I am hoping to move this into the assembly plugin and use a
generic procedure to extract schemas rather than the somewhat custom
code we use today.
The other problem we need to think about, related to the port issue,
is setting the default web port. If you install only Jetty or Tomcat,
whichever one you install should default to 8080. But if you install
both, they should default to different ports. I would be OK saying
that the installer will not install both, which would make this
easier, but I don't think there's that kind of exclusivity in the
feature selection screen.
I'd certainly like to know if there is some kind of "radio button"
functionality.
Then again, I haven't worked with IzPack for a while now so my
information may be a little out of date. :)
Aaron
On 11/16/05, Erik Daughtrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey David, I'll start working on these items.
Excellent
david jencks
erik
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 03:24, David Jencks wrote:
It would be good if we could get the installer working well for 1.0.
Here are some of the things I think need to happen.
1. The necessary izpack jars need to get into some maven repo,
preferably a public one such as ibiblio. They might be on there way
there already, otherwise we should figure out which jars are needed
and
file an upload request.
2. Installer building should occur in its own module in assemblies.
It
would be best if the installer can be built using a maven plugin, but
if that seems impractical we can use a bunch of jelly for now. There
is an izpack plugin but I think it is maven 2 only (??).
3. The installer currently has a page where you check the major
features you want, and on the following pages you configure them.
This
seems like a basically acceptable paradigm to me, but there is a
problem in that all the "following pages" display even if they are
empty. I've been told that moving the <createForPack> element out
one
level to the panel element will fix this.
4. The installer currently works by installing everything in a full
geronimo install, and not starting the pieces you don't want. This
is
rather unsatisfactory unless you sell disk space. The geronimo
assembly is moving to use of the packaging and assembly plugins, and
we
can leverage that with the installer. What I am thinking of is
including a maven repository inside the installer jar that includes
everything from a full geronimo install with everything, including
all
the .car files for the configurations. Then we can imitate or use
the
assembly plugin to copy the configuration dependencies into the
install
target and install the actual configurations.
5. We should find a way to check that no port conflicts have been
configured.
6. We need to construct a config.xml file for the target install.
This
could be done by adding bits associated with each configuration, or
by
removing chunks from a "universal" config.xml for the configurations
we
didnt' install.
7. Somewhat similarly, we need to include the schema files (for
human
reference, they aren't used by geronimo) for the bits that are
included
in the install target. This should proceed by fixing the xmlbeans
plugin to put schemas in the same place the xmlbeans ant task does,
and
by extracting all such schemas from our dependencies. This needs to
be
added to the assembly plugin: it is not installer specific.
There's probably more to do, but this is what I've thought of so far.
thanks
david jencks
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Regards,
Erik
