I'm missing some important clue about deployment.
It seems I can "deploy" to a running server and "distribute" to a non-running server. I understand the technical difference, but I don't grok why we need this difference, and more importantly, why I can't "undistribute" in the event of a mistake...
I'd hate to distribute the ImmediatelyScramNuclearReactorGBean and have to start the server to remove it.
I was perusing JSR88, and it seems to indicate that distribute, start, stop, undeploy and redeploy are the "verbs", all applying to a running server. There seems to be no concept of offline for JSR88 that's useful.
I remember the "Deployment Semantics Wars" of 2004 with much dread, and don't wish to rekindle especially now as we're focused on J2EE functionality, but can we revisit this? I would imagine it would be nice to have :
1) A JSR-88 compliant tool that is strict in it's support of the spec, asymmetry and all.
2) A Geronimo-specific tool that lets me have the nifty things you guys designed into this, like a redistributable configuration archive. I'll go re-read the threads...
geir
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