On Oct 26, 2006, at 2:41 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:

David Jencks wrote:
On Oct 26, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Joe Bohn wrote:
Can somebody please help me understand why the Jetty Config has a hard dependency on the Clustering config? It seems a little odd to me that we can't build a Jetty assembly that doesn't contain support for clustering.
geronimo-clustering just has apis. Without an api or an implementation there isn't going to be any way to have clustering support. Better an api than an implementation.

Thanks for the explanation David. I didn't realize this only included the APIs.

One more question. Why is it better to create this as its own configuration (and for my purposes it's own plugin) rather than just a jar that is included with the Jetty (and Tomcat?) configuration as a dependency?

I might be coming at this from the wrong angle, but I'm thinking that as we expose plugins as building blocks for assemblies (where many plugins are basically configs from our build) then some of these items might be too granular and confuse our users. I could see a user thinking that they didn't need (or want) clustering and then wondering why it is pulled into their image anyway.

Whatever ends up as our clustering interface is hopefully going to be used by both the web container and openejb. As such it needs to be in only one config, not 2 or more. If we decide we'll never have a connector-only server with no web or ejb support we could perhaps include it in j2ee-server.

thanks
david jencks


Thanks,
Joe


With Mico-G I was originally able to install the Jetty plugin that I had created just fine. However, since the addition of this clustering dependency this no longer works. If the dependency stays then we need to build a plugin for the clustering module.

Joe

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