Ok...lets hash this last one out...
I would really like to have a command line parameter to start Geronimo
like "-verbose" that sends the log to the stdout (like it was before).
As a developer, its nice to have this instead of having to muck with the
log4j files. Although I could open up another terminal and tail -f the
log...this is a real PITA. Luckily I can do this since I develop on
MacOSX. The windows users may have a more difficult time with this
since they lack some of the UNIX commands we are used to (like tail),
and would be forced to download cygwin or other.
For ease of use, a verbose parameter would make good sense, especially
for developers.
I love this new status bar...its really clean...but I would like the
option to spew the logs to the terminal.
I would like to get people's feelings on this since there are 2 sides
having this option.
Jeff
Aaron Mulder wrote:
I just put in a change with nicer startup console output. It
gives some progress and status information during the server start process
and lists the apps deployed and ports used at the end of the startup.
Since it uses \r characters to make it work, the output looks lousy if you
view it in a log file, so there's a -noprogress argument you can add to
the server command line to suppress it (which the Maven deploy tool does,
for example).
In any case, I'd appreciate any thoughts or feedback on the new
look.
* Jeremy's already suggested adding a middle ground between -noprogress
and what's in there, where it would print more or less the same
information but one message per line so it looks nicer in a log.
There's just an interface to implement to get the startup sequence
calls, so it should be easy enough to support that.
* David J recommended the current combination of a short progress bar and
status messages instead of my initial attempt, which just had a long
(but not very fine-grained) progress bar. I like the way it came out.
Now that I've done this, I think we can use the same technique to
hide the password on the deployer command line.
Thanks,
Aaron
Log message
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New server startup output
- shows a progress bar, timer, and operation status during start
- shows a list of started application modules (other than o/a/g/System*)
- shows a list of network ports that GBeans tried to bind to
The port list is voluntary on behalf of the GBeans. They must declare an
attribute of type java.net.InetSocketAddress in order to be included
in the list (though it can be a read-only attribute). We should review
the current GBeans and make sure they do.
There is also some logic around calculating the name of a service. For
example, if the same GBean has more than one InetSocketAddress attribute,
it tries to add the name of each attribute in the port list, and if the
GBean has a "name" attribute (for GBeans tht may be deployed more than
once with different names) it includes that too.
The new progress bar does not render particularly well in log files, and
can be disabled by passing -noprogress on the server command line. The
maven deployment plugin does that.
