Some observations from a user perspective on deploying an application

2006-04-27 Thread Matt Hogstrom
All, I was looking at Aaron's Guiding Principals doc and rmembered I meant to post some thoughts on the Geronimo Experience. I've been working on deploying daytrader and have noted a couple of things that I think are relevant from a user perspective. Specifically these around the

Re: Some observations from a user perspective on deploying an application

2006-04-27 Thread Aaron Mulder
Do you want to try adding the files to the repository using the common libraries area of the console and see if you think that's more straightforward? For example, it should suggest the different name parts to use. We could probably stand to make that page a little more informative, so any

Re: Some observations from a user perspective on deploying an application

2006-04-27 Thread Hernan Cunico
Hi All, today I got my first, and mostly functional, G 1.1 build and succeeded in deploying my first DB2 data source through the console. I choose DB2 because of the multiple jars. My impression at the end was, it is even more complicated than the previous version. The new naming convention

Re: Some observations from a user perspective on deploying an application

2006-04-27 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Aaron, The console works great. For single installs this is a great way to do it. I'm more accustomed to not using the GUI so perhaps I should reconsider. For automated installs I imagine people are pretty much left to scripts to define and populate the repository. I think the repo is