Bonjour, Nuxeo folks --
Although I've been tracking & admiring your work through your releases,
snapshots, code, jira, trac, sites, docs, and the archives of this list, I've
never posted here before. So I'll restrict this "hello nuxeo world" message to a
highlevel theme.
I really like and agree with (at least 90% of) your architectural choices, and
think you guys are doing a fine job (modulo how ambitious you have been for this
cycle) following through with implementation as well. I am already recommending
Nuxeo as an ECM *application*, and have high hopes for it as a high-level
*platform*.
But then, people don't post here *just* to say nice things, do they? :) So here
is my top concern:
What are the plans for hot-deployment of Plugins (those which include EJB3s; not
just web components) placed into the server/default/deploy/nuxeo.ear/plugins
directory after server startup?
Several places in the docs have statements that hot-deployment will be available
on platforms that support it; and JBoss certainly is a platform that does. I
have developed several plugins based on the Maven archetype you've provided
(including some with EJB3 Entities, based on my previous SEAM work, and
everything works great :)).... but... I have never seen any indication of even
partial deployment except with a full server shutdown and startup. I was
initially quite excited about OSGi coming to JBoss, and I have found
many hints that you are working toward hot-deployment of your almost-OSGi
plugins... but nothing visible in JIRA, and I have no solid sense of where it
fits in your priorities, or in relation to 5.1 GA.
As a long-time JBoss developer, I can say that hot-deployment/hot-redeployment
and the resulting rapid cycle times are key to the enjoyment and productivity I
have had with JBoss over the past 7 years, and with SEAM over the past 2. Having
already invested hundreds of hours into Nuxeo over the past 5 months, and with
heavy coding commitments during the upcoming months, I sincerely hope the 5.1 GA
will ship with hot-deployment.
Best regards,
Howard (hxp) Pearlmutter
http://www.jboss.howard.pearlmutter.com
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