Vote: 1 deployment tool or 2?

[Aaron Mulder <am...@alumni.princeton.edu>]

	It looks like we'd like to have a command-line deployment tool
with JSR-88 features.  This would be aimed at providing hot deploy and 
start/stop and other JSR-88 features, as well as operating on remote 
servers.  It could use the same logic as the Maven plugin or otherwise, 
I'm not concerned about the implementation yet.  The question is:

 [  ] Add these features to the existing bin/deployer.jar tool
 [  ] Create a new bin/xyz.jar tool with only these features, so we
      have an "offline" deployer and a "JSR-88" or "J2EE" deployer.

	The advantage to the unified tool is that you'd have one deployer 
tool for any scenario.  One command to remember, etc.

	There are a couple advantages to having separate tools:

 * If combined into one tool, the help would need to be rewritten to make
   the 2 usage modes clear.  For example, JSR-88 can't handle creating a
   CAR or executable/classPath information, while the current deployer
   can't handle start/stop/undeploy/etc.  Also there would need to be
   substantial syntax checking to avoid mixing parameters from different
   modes.  It seems unfortunate that a lot of the command line arguments 
   would clash with each other.

 * The code for a unified tool would need to decide how to operate based
   on the mode, and some operations (install/distribute) would need two
   code paths for the same operation, making it harder to have clean code.

 * The JSR-88 features of a combined tool might work against other servers
   (given an appropriate plugin), but the other features would not, which
   would also need to be clarified.

 * The current deploy tool would not depend on JSR-88, making it possible
   to have a more compact Geronimo distribution with a functional
   deployer, granted without remote deploy or other JSR-88 features.

	Anyway, please vote.

Thanks,
	Aaron

Re: Vote: 1 deployment tool or 2?

[Eric Le Goff <el...@gmail.com>]

>  [  ] Add these features to the existing bin/deployer.jar tool
>  [ X] Create a new bin/xyz.jar tool with only these features, so we
>       have an "offline" deployer and a "JSR-88" or "J2EE" deployer.

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Eric Le Goff
Java/J2EE developer
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