Noel J. Bergman wrote:
The cornerstone suite of components were released a couple of days ago.
James CVS is already updated. A vote on the release plan for Merlin is
also underway.
Stephen, unless Merlin has been updated so that it supports our
configuration as-is, I don't think we want to adopt it.
Can you provide a little more detail as to what you mean by "configuration as-is"?
James configuration data does not change however there is a semantic difference in the role that James plays when deployed under Merlin. Basically James is deployed as a composite component which means that james could appear anywhere in a larger componet model. The up-side of this is that james can be used as a service by other components just as cornerstone components are used by james. The impact of this on configuration is that confiuration information has to be directed to the location at which james is deployed.
You've said that the primary thing missing is that Merlin cannot handle our logging configuration.
The logging configuration that james uses is the excalibur logging system. This is not supported in Merlin at this time simply because there are other priorities that are grabbing attention (but patches are always welcome).
Currently the james cvs and build is somewhat hard-wired to a Phoenix deployment - this could be changed such that you build james (the core system) and then you build the deployment solution. For example, I build james using the jar target, then take the generated jar files and deploy them under Merlin using the appropriate configuration and deployment descriptors used by Merlin. It seems to me that with a little refactoring of things in the structure of the james build that you could provide independence from the deployment environment. I.e. it should be possible to build the core james and then deploy in the container of choice.
Steve.
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