I think it would be really terrific if the properties that are typically
provided on the command line at startup could be instead, optionally, defined in
a configuration file. Better yet if these can be configured via the portlet.
If Geronimo is to be used in a web server farm of dozens of nodes, there needs
to be a way to remotely administer all properties. And if all properties can be
setup in a config file and no longer need to be passed on the command line, this
would enhance the ability for remote administration. The goal being the
administrator never has to login to the server to deploy new Geronimo instances
and administer them.
-RG
On 02/28/2012 08:17 AM, Ivan wrote:
Hi, I am thinking to try to implement this feature in the coming 3.0-beta-2,
the rough idea is that
a. update our schema file to include things like :
<environment>
...
<properties>
<property>
<name>org.apache.geronimo.jsf.support</name>
<value>false</value>
</properties>
</envrionment>
b. Have a PropertyDefintion GBean in geronimo-system module to describe the
property, the class may something like :
@GBean
public class PropertyDefintion<T> {
private String name;
private Type type;
private String description;
private String[] parentPropertyNames;
private String[] allowedValues;
public PropertyDefintion(String name, String type, String description,
String[] parentPropertyNames, String[] allowedValues) {
this.name <http://this.name> = name;
this.type = Type.valueOf(type);
this.description = description;
this.parentPropertyNames = parentPropertyNames;
this.allowedValues = allowedValues;
}
.......
3. May also have a PropertyContext GBean for each application, which is used to
hold those configurations.
4. I have some property names in mind, including
org.apache.geronimo.webservice.support : The deployed application will not
use any webservice related stuff.
org.apache.geronimo.webservice.client.support : Need to inject some
service ref for this
org.apache.geronimo.webservice.server.support : Have SEI in the deployed
application.
org.apache.geronimo.webservice.jaxws.support
org.apache.geronimo.webservice.jaxrpc.support
org.apache.geronimo.ejb.support : No ejb component there, with this
configured with false, there is no need to annotation scanning in some
scenarios, e,g, while deploying a web application.
org.apache.geronimo.jsf.support ......
org.apache.geronimo.jaxrs.support ......
.....
The most reason for this is that :
a. Geronimo is suffering from bad experience from long long long deployment
time, especially for those big application with many jar files. One of the major
reason is that, there are too many annotation scanning there, and so far we did
not have a uniform annotation scanning framework. With those options above, it
is possible to ignore some process steps. e.g. if
org.apache.geronimo.jsf.support is configured false, then MyFacesModuleBuilder
will not do anything.
b. From the user list, I saw some guys try to use other java ee providers, like
using cxf for webservice, use ri jsf implementation. Now, we may need to stop
the related deployer to avoid some problems.
c. There are some existing configurations here and there in Geronimo codes, all
of them are server scope.
For the OSGi integration side, so far, I did not have much idea for this. Maybe,
we could make those configurations visible in the Configuration instance of the
config admin server ???
Any comment for this ?
2011/2/14 Ivan <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
JSF issue is just an example, as I find a user fire a JIRA for it. The root
reason is that we use system property everywhere in the geronimo codes,
which is of global scope. Once we want to change the behavior, all the
components are affected. And it would be better to have other scope
configurations, like deployment scope, which means the configuration is only
for current application deployment process. We might also have application
scope configurations, which might be effect for the specified application.
Also, I think that we need this function even when we move to a gbean-free
geronimo, and yes, I agree that the solution now might not applicable in the
future. But, do we have a plan for the gbean-free kernel ?
2011/2/14 David Jencks <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Hi Ivan,
If I understand your proposal this is what you can currently do in a
maven geronimp plugin project in the car-maven-plugin configuration
where you specify which deployers to start.
I think this makes sense but I'd rather wait to implement it until we
know more what a gbean-free geronimo would look like. I suspect that
anything we do now would be obsolete later.
Would there be any confusion if you had a web app you wanted to deploy
on either jetty or tomcat but that included its own jsf? Currently you
could use the same plan for your jetty or tomcat server but I think
you'd need separate plans for your proposal. I think this is a minor
problem that should not block this idea.
thanks!
david jencks
On Feb 13, 2011, at 5:59 AM, Ivan wrote:
> Hi, there are many configurations in the Geronimo codes, and all of
them are system scope, using System.getProperty. And seems that the only
way to change it is to set -D while starting Geronimo. Yes, some of them
are of global scope, but some of them are only of deployment scope ( or
should be deployment scope ). for example, in the past, while users want
to use their own JSF API and implementations, we always ask them to stop
the MyFaces deployer, but if we could have a configuration only takes
affect in the deployment process, that would be easier.
> My proposal is that to add a configuration in the environment
elements, those values could be kept in the DeploymentContext.
> <deployment-configurations>
> <deployment-configuration>
> <name>****</name>
> <value>****</value>
> <deployment-configuration>
> </deployment-configuraitons>
>
> Aslo, we might be able to allow the users to configure them in the
deployment portlet, also, might be consider how to take advantage of the
config-admin service.
> Thoughts ? If no objection, I would open a JIRA and work on it later.
> --
> Ivan
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