Hi JB, That looks useful but I think it's for a different purpose. I want something maven sets up as part of the build, and I want the instance to be a fairly independent server. Basically I want the startup.properties for the instance to be generated from startup features in the same way it is for a karaf assembly, but in the instance directory, and then the instance files packed up as kar resources rather than packed up as a server assembly tar.gz and zip.
BTW installing an instance from a kar seems to work fine.... I made the resources for the kar (i.e. all the instance/<foo> files) by hand but once made you can include it in a karaf assembly and then it works fine. thanks! david jencks On Jan 11, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: > Hi David, > > What do you think about something like: > > karaf@root> instance:create geronimo-my > karaf@root> instance:connect geronimo-my > karaf@geronimo-my> profile:apply geronimo > Patching etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg file > Patching system directory > ... > > It's what I have with the profiles for now. > > Regards > JB > > On 01/12/2012 01:21 AM, David Jencks wrote: >> Geronimo needs some "special purpose" "little" servers related to the main >> one, for instance to run javaee app clients. I'm thinking of implementing >> this as a karaf child instance. I'm going to make a kar to install it (i.e. >> all the etc/ and such resource files will be in a kar under >> resources/instances/client/etc). >> >> At the moment I'm thinking of just reusing most of the files from the main >> server and hand-editing them, but maybe it would be possible to combine >> things so that the server-assembly mojos generate something into the >> instances/<foo> directory and then the kar packaging step packs stuff into >> a kar. >> >> I don't yet know if this makes sense... it would result in it being easy to >> make installable child instances with properties defined in the pom. >> Putting the idea out in case I forget about it :-) >> >> thanks >> david jencks > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com
