Some commands not all need much more information to do things like dump the contents of a partition while the server is off line or in a state where it cannot be started. If you like give it a try and see what you can do to remedy this particular problem and I think we'll both be on the same page.
Alex On 10/4/07, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > > Hi David, > > > > As I make my way with the removal of various configuration beans I > > ran into a problem in the > > apacheds-server-tools module. This module uses spring to load the > > configuration but it really > > does not intend to start the server but rather to read the > > configuration to run various utility > > commands with that information: i.e. connect to a running instance > > to perform operations. > > > > If these commands use Spring to get these objects and they startup > > then there will be an > > exception due to the server already running and ports being used. > > So if Spring starts up > > these objects we're in trouble within this module. > > > > Do you have any advice for dealing with this situation? > > I have only a vague recollection of looking at this module... IIUC > these are command line commands that connect to a running server and > tell it to do something. IIUC the server can be on a different > machine? Do they need more information about the server than its > host and port? I would think that the specific configuration of a > server might be info we wouldn't want to publish let alone require > for using the tools.... so I wonder what information from server.xml > is actually needed? > > thanks > david jencks > > > > > Alex > > > >
