I believe to run pulse in non-embedded mode, you just need to install the war in a web server and some configuration changes, you don't need geode-core at all.
We do lack the acceptance test to run pulse in non-embedded mode though. We have a few unit tests that touches some aspect of it. On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:10 PM Michael Oleske <mole...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hi Geode Community! > > Some colleagues and I were looking at GEODE-6683 ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-6683) and noticed that we do > not have test coverage for running Pulse in non-embedded mode. We were > wondering what our strategy is around Pulse in non-embedded mode. In order > to fully fix the issue, we would prefer to have a high-level acceptance > test that actually tries to run Pule in non-embedded mode (we could not > find an existing acceptance test that performs this). However, this > non-embedded mode seems a bit odd, as the instructions for it ( > > https://geode.apache.org/docs/guide/19/tools_modules/pulse/pulse-hosted.html > ) > are slightly confusing and need some updating for geode (such as making > sure geode-core is on the class path). It seems strange to try and host a > web app in this way, especially with the extra configuration needed (cannot > just plop the Pulse war file in my web server with some config and have it > work). So there's some questions about the best path forward. > > 1. Should we continue supporting non-embedded mode for Pulse? It seems > like it may be useful to allow Pulse to run outside of a member, but not as > it currently does. If it was deprecated, I wouldn't be as insistent on an > acceptance test for it. > > 2. Should we try to make a separate artifact that is intended to be > deployed on a web server? This would have a new artifact that could run > elsewhere then (with maybe a user provided config file for properties.) > > 3. For the issue that brought up these questions (GEODE-6683), we have > currently only written some unit tests to add the properties. So the > current question is what type of path forward should we take? > > > -michael > -- Cheers Jinmei
