On Feb 10, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Kevan Miller wrote:
On Feb 10, 2007, at 3:55 AM, David Jencks wrote:
I think this would be great, especially if we adapted the assembly
stuff we have now so you could extract a server that had just what
you wanted in it. Then we could supply just one download and let
people simplify it themselves if they wanted to.
I like it. The size delta would be a minor issue, IMO.
I'd be in favor of this as a general approach. A few points:
1. I'd like to maintain two multi-personality distributions -- a
minimal and Java EE distribution.
Does minimal include a web-container?
2. IMO, the distributions must have a default configuration.
Downloading and starting a server must be simple (i.e. no selection/
configuration is required).
Yes, the server should check when bootstraping if it has been
configured with a personality, if not, it will select the default and
continue... so the user does not have to explicitly configure a
personality.
3. I would not want this to be the cause of a significant delay in
the 2.0 release
Ya, hopefully not... else we can leave it for 2.1... I do think this
is a good idea.
--jason
