On Sep 13, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
Dain Sundstrom wrote:
Do you honestly think a newbie will be able to understand, download a plan, modify this, deploy it, and then start it? Now the augment to have a properties file works for me, but deploying a plan seems like one step too many.
People seem to manage quite well for WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, ... Of course, it would have helped if we hadn't removed the plans from the assembly at some point.
Except that is not what JBoss for one is doing. The jboss.xml file is the equivalent geronimo config-store (well actually the jboss deploy directory is). If someone wants to change something on jboss they just modify the jboss file and restart the server. In the case of the deploy directory they modify the deployed file and jboss automatically detects a change, drops the current running configuration, and deploys/starts the new one.
I remain opposed to properties files - WebLogic used to work that way (up to V5 IIRC) and they dropped that approach because it was unmanageable.
All they did was to convert the properties file to the config.xml file.... same thing different format.
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/config_xml/overview.html
-dain
