> From: Alex Blewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 17:10 Europe/London, n. alex rupp wrote: > > > I would like to create a front end for this process in the web > > console. I > > was thinking about it last night (before I read this morning's > > encouraging > > posts). Richard Monson-Haefel wrote about it a while back--easing the > > process of deployment by removing the need for people to work directly > > with > > the deployment descriptors. His suggestions fall perfectly in line > > with > > what Jeremy's written here. > > > I think it's an excellent idea to get the web console to generate the > deployment -- RMH's idea was that you shouldn't need to know that an > XML file is even there. > > So I think the front-end console can hide /whatever/ format is required > and this will be a Good Thing. I just don't personally see the benefit > of a binary format outweighing the downsides. >
If you are writing a deployment tool, I would strongly suggest that it use JSR 88 DDBean and DConfigBeans as its data model - that will allow it to deploy applications to _any_ J2EE1.4 server. [Remember, the provider part of JSR88 is mandatory, the tool part is optional ]] Please sync with Aaron Mulder on loading the standard XML config into DDBeans. And, for James, this is the application for the pure-standard data model. -- Jeremy
