As a "user" I hate how the Plugin portlet and cmdline show plugins that
can't/shouldn't be installed on my Tomcat JEE5 or Minimal server....
Seems that we're confusing/complicating everyone's life for a framework
assembly scenario that should be handled in the code:
- If a plugin lists tomcat or jetty as a depend, but the server has the
opposite container installed, then it should not be installable.
- If a plugin lists tomcat or jetty as a depend, but the server has
neither installed, then the plugin is installable.
The same logic would be applied to axis2 and cxf depends.
-Donald
David Jencks wrote:
On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Donald Woods wrote:
OK, it's because of wanting to install on a framework assembly....
Guess we're stuck with this for 2.1, but never liked this approach,
especially given we are providing Tomcat and Jetty versions of each
sample and most do truly prereq a web container...
I disagree with this approach for 2.2 since we'll have plugin profiles
that users should be using instead of starting with the framework
assembly.
what? why does the existence of the framework profile change the
reasoning? You need enough of a server to install plugins, then
everything else required for the app is pulled in. The framework
profile defines this minimal server. The framework profile just makes
it easier to assemble servers, it doesn't change how to add stuff to a
server. I don't see any relevance of any of the other profiles since
they are designed to help with assembling servers with specific
capabilities, which is irrelevant to the process of installing plugins
into a frameworks server.
not sure how coherent this is but I don't understand what you are saying
at all.
thanks
david jencks
-Donald
Joe Bohn wrote:
We had this discussion a while ago (along with a lot of other samples
issues). The results were summarized in the wiki status page:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxPMGT/geronimo-samples-212-release-work-items.html Here's
the thread where it was discussed:
http://tiny.cc/uVkbL
Joe
Donald Woods wrote:
Seems that only one of the samples has the tomcat/jetty prerequisite
set. Why? Shouldn't we include this setting so the Plugin portlet
will only allow the appropriate samples to be installed?
-Donald
