Hi Christian and fellow geromimos, Friday, August 8, 2003, 2:02:38 PM, you wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:44:34AM +0300, Lyytinen Joonas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> One thing that has annoyed me in several app-servers (e.g. Weblogic and >> JBoss) is the >> way the server specific configuration XML files located in the >> WARs/JARs/EARs of the >> "pure" J2EE application. This hinders application portability and is >> generally messy. >> >> My syggeestion is that in geronimo we should adopt a similar approach than >> the Orion >> application server (http://www.orionserver.com), where the implementation >> specific >> files with some default values are generated into a separate directory >> structure >> by the application server when a application is deployed on the server. >> IMHO this has several advantages. >> >> everyone in favor say ay! :) > hi Lyytinen, > 1+ for a separate config file, and i think it > shoult be only one file (something like Tomcats's server.xml) +1 for separate config files -1 for only one config file It will be pretty much complicated to deploy applications "on hot", because deployer component has to open that "applications.xml", add some elements and then save it back. On the other hand, if there is whole separate configuration directory structure, deployment becomes very simple process. You just need to extract your EAR/WAR/JAR to applications directory and add one file to corresponding configuration folder. Just like Tomcat 5. Igor Lobanov
