It may sound a good idea, but the question is that how we could distinguish the system modules and applications deployed by users ?
2009/11/13 Ellen Tang <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I'm currently reviewing the contents on the UI of the "Plugins" portlet in > G 2.2 admin console. I have a question for the "Create Plugin" function. > > As we can see, currently the drop-down list in the "Create Plugin" portlet > shows all the CAR files on the server, including system plugins that already > exist in the "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\" folder. For example, you can find > the plugin "org.apache.geronimo.configs/activemq-broker/2.2-SNAPSHOT/car" in > the directory > "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\org\apache\geronimo\configs\activemq-broker\2.2-SNAPSHOT", > which contains the "geronimo-plugin.xml" file already. However, according to > the "Help" contents of the "Create Plugin" portlet, the function of this > portlet is that "The console will generate the geronimo-plugin.xml file > that stores the plugin metadata information for your project and package it > into a car file." > > My question is that do we really need to include the system plugins in the > drop-down list of the "Create Plugin" portlet? If the system plugins already > exist in the "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\" folder and they already have the > "geronimo-plugin.xml" file, the users would not need to use this "Create > Plugin" portlet to create these plugins again. Besides, this portlet doesn't > do anything else to the system plugins apart from exporting them as files, > which the users already have in the repository. Therefore, I think it's more > practical to only show the applications and/or application plugins in the > drop-down list of this portlet. > > Does anyone think that it's a good idea to leave out the system plugins but > only keep the application plugins in this portlet? Maybe we can do that in > the 3.0 release? > > Any comments are welcome. > > Thanks! > > Ellen > > > -- Ivan
