The launcher is really just for convenience when initially playing around with Usergrid. I haven’t used it for a while and it may or may not even work fully. It certainly isn’t integral to the system. I would be fine with omitting it from this release.
Rod -- Rod Simpson T @rockerston W rodsimpson.com On January 4, 2015 at 1:04:30 PM, John D. Ament ([email protected]) wrote: Yes, this is short term for the 1.0.1 release (can't ship it with the licensing state as is). According to the code, it looks like it's only used for css, but that could be a naming thing... https://github.com/apache/incubator-usergrid/blob/master/stack/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/usergrid/launcher/Server.java#L159 Does anyone know who this is and if we have an SGA (or equiv) from him/her? https://github.com/apache/incubator-usergrid/blob/master/stack/launcher/src/main/java/org/apache/usergrid/launcher/EmbeddedServerHelper.java#L20 I do have to ask, can we excluse the laucher from the release? John On Sun Jan 04 2015 at 2:53:06 PM Ed Anuff <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought this was for the 1.0.1 release though. Regardless of what we > want to do in 2.0, doesn't the current Launcher in 1.0 fire up an embedded > web server that serves, among other things, a few JSPs, CSS files, etc? I > understand the desire to blow aware the standalone server and launcher in > favor of other mechanisms (although I do think that will result in this > being harder, not easier, for people to run locally), which is fine for > ticket 308, but what about 1.0.x? > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Nate McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Agreed. The launcher is getting an overhaul in the 2.0 branch, we just > > > haven't decided what that is. > > > > Is there a Jira issue for this yet? I have some ideas (see below) > > > > > We've found the embedded Cassandra to be > > > problematic, so we're open to ideas of ways to create a more usable > > > standalone distro that utilizes the war binary created with our release > > > process. > > > > I don't think this is a realistic goal given the complexity. Running > > this as a "fat jar" application and forking Cassandra to it's own > > process would be the sanest approach. > > > > Them's my $0.02 - let's do discussion on a ticket though. Couldn't > > find one, so I created: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/USERGRID-308 > > >
