I'm not sure if you are suggesting it would be possible for two geronimo
instances to share a var/config directory - that would not work as each
instance would be attempting to do updates of the one config.xml file.
This may also have problems with two instances trying to write log
files, journal files of the same name etc.
John
Paul McMahan wrote:
As a programmer type it seems intuitive to me that the presence of a
subdir in an alternate server root overrides the default while its
absence makes the server instance inherit the default. But its
possible that I am mingling system administration with too much OO.
At any rate I agree that having to examine the command line and then
the alternate server root directory to figure out which repository
directory (or var, or config-store, etc.) is in use could be
error-prone for some. An informative message shown at the beginning
of startup that shows which directories are mapped into the server
instance could help. I can think of a few other ways to address this
concern but they all tend to sacrifice flexibility or intuitiveness.
BTW, I'm not suggesting that the subdirs of the alternate server root
directory get "weaved" into the subdirs of geronimo_home, as that
approach *does* seem too indeterminate to me.
Oh, and one more thing I'm wondering is how Sachin's req for running
applications from within a dev environment might play into this new
feature. Seems that ideally the solution for the var subdir would be
consistent with the solution for config-store, repository, and
whatever else we decide to put in geronimo_home in the future. Here's
the JIRA for that req:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1526
Best wishes,
Paul
On 1/30/06, *David Jencks* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'm not sure I like that, because IIUC it would mean that the main
repository gbean for instance would be looking at different repos
depending on both a command line switch and whether a particular
directory existed. At the moment I think that is too
indeterminate. I would prefer to have each repo gbean point to a
single well defined location and to add more repositories for
customization.
You might be able to argue me out of this position.
thanks
david jencks
