Hi Folks, I guess it's possible that I'm the only person that used offline deployment, at least I don't see a lot of people clamoring to bring it back. It's very useful for me, though, so I'd like to find out if there's a possibility of bringing it back onto HEAD (and hopefully the 1.0 branch, too). I'll probably need to hack something for my needs but I'd just as soon do it in a way that's Geronimo-savvy.
>From discussion on this list it looks as if the preferred approach is to try to use the same approach that the build-time maven plugins do. >From my naive reading of the code, it looks as if that happens in two passes: first the geronimo-packaging-plugin takes a deployable resource (ear, war, etc) and generates a configuration archive from that, then the geronimo-assembly-plugin moves the car into the ConfigurationStore. The configurations are mentioned in config.xml (hand-coded?) which causes them to get started when Geronimo runs. I see notes in the code that the packaging plugin uses the Maven repository, so in order to work on machines without Maven I imagine that we'd need to use the Geronimo repository instead. Is this more-or-less on the right track? I'd appreciate any tips or pointers, especially if I'm about to head off in the wrong direction. Thanks, Toby
