I talked to Jeremy. Our plan for now is that I will check in a
deployer tool that includes the following features:
- everything, when working online (on the same PC as the server)
- package and distribute, when working offline (on the same PC)
- nothing, when working online (on a different PC from the server)
This is basically the same functionality in the current
deployer.jar tool, plus online same-PC deployment via JSR-88.
Jeremy is going to write up a "position paper" regarding
additional offline deployer features when he gets a chance (next couple of
days?). He has concerns about the original vision of a single unified
offline+online tool. (We should spend some time on this at the Hackathon
if it's not resolved sooner.)
Jeremy is also working on the remote-PC JSR-88 implementation, and
the tool will be updated to work with that once it's ready.
Aaron
