No you are not the only one. This has been a huge discussion, and there is definitely a need for this functionality. IIRC, I think David Jencks was going to build a similar type tool after the 1.0 release. he should be able to comment on this...
Jeff toby cabot wrote: > 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
