On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Paul McMahan wrote:
Why not use the plugins portlet in the admin console? From the
admin console in tomcat6-jee5 I was able to stop the axis
components and then install the cxf and cxf-deployer plugins from
the online Geronimo plugin repository all within about a minute.
I think this is related to my (4). I'm fine with shipping with only
one web service framework per server but asking people to use the
admin console and go through more than one step is too hard IMO.
thanks
david jencks
Best wishes,
Paul
On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:26 PM, David Jencks wrote:
I made the plugin system support the condition expressions we've
been using to select a web service container but I can't see how
to make it work usefully so I wonder if we need a new approach.
Previously the conditions for axis2 and cxf we different in the
jetty and tomcat servers, so cxf was on by default for jetty and
axis2 for tomcat. However now these conditions are specified in
the axis2 and cxf deployer plugins, so when installed they are
going to be the same for jetty and tomcat. I guess we could come
up with yet more complicated expressions that took into account
whether we are on jetty or tomcat but this seems like its getting
ridiculous and we need another way.
Here are a few ideas.
1. More assemblies. I don't think anyone really wants this.
2. gshell commands to set the web service container. I guess we
could run this on say the tomcat assembly to switch it to axis2
before we pack it up. Well, actually we could use this so we only
ship one server and use such commands to turn it into a jetty or
tomcat server.
3. gshell commands to remove sets of unneeded plugins: this would
more permanently convert a server to axis2 or cxf only. However I
think this is fairly appropriate. Again this could be used to get
all non-framework servers out of one big distro.
4. gshell commands to download and install specific servers
starting from framework.
I'd actually like the gshell commands for 2,3,4 anyway but I'm
wondering if any of them will actually provide a good solution for
this problem.
thoughts? Anyone have a better idea?
thanks
david jencks
