I use the console for remote monitoring, and shutdown.
I also use the console to remote monitoring of sessions. DB support is now
available (I'm using Orion 1.4.7) so I touch records if needed. Editing user
profiles is built in, also, but relatively buggy. It's helpful, if you don't
get your hopes too high.
JP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Schnitzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 1:32 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: RE: Usage of the Service console...
>
>
> My advice is to ignore all the GUI tools that come with Orion
> and stick
> to Ant as a build-and-deploy tool.
>
> It is my strong suspicion that nobody is using, testing, or actively
> developing the GUI tools. It is my personal opinion
> (probably shared by
> many on this list) that this is a good thing. I would rather see the
> Orion team's limited resources focused on the server core.
>
> Not that I think pretty GUI tools don't have a place, but there really
> is no limit to the amount of time one can sink into getting a GUI app
> working properly. Ant works just fine.
>
> Jeff
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chaya Ramanujam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:10 PM
> >To: Orion-Interest
> >Subject: Usage of the Service console...
> >
> >
> >I've been playing with the Service console. It took me way
> longer to
> >create, install and deploy a J2ee app using the console than
> >it did when I
> >did everything myself on the command line (creating the directory
> >structures, creating very simple deployment descriptors,
> >creating the jar
> >and war files and finally editing the server.xml and
> >default-web-site.xml
> >files).
> >
> >I know the console is said to be "alpha" quality - but was
> >just curious - is
> >any one out there using the console on a regular basis? Do
> >you find it
> >really useful? In what scenarios do you find this more
> useful - while
> >creating and deploying apps or for monitoring or for
> redeploying apps?
> >
> >There seems to be a great deal of functionality in the
> >console, however the
> >lack of documentation/help is a big drawback.
> >
> >--Chaya.
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