[jira] [Updated] (KARAF-475) Better support for creating a custom server

["Jean-Baptiste Onofré (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jean-Baptiste Onofré updated KARAF-475:
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    Fix Version/s: 3.1.0

> Better support for creating a custom server
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>
>                 Key: KARAF-475
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-475
>             Project: Karaf
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: runtime
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.3
>            Reporter: Bengt Rodehav
>             Fix For: 3.1.0
>
>
> Every time I upgrade my applications with a new version of Karaf I have to modify several files included in the Karaf distribution. This is very cumbersome and error prone. I would like it to be easier to customise a Karaf server. I think the goal with a customised server should be that all customisation (within reasonable limits) should be possible to do without modifying any files that come with the Karaf distribution. My customisation should solely exist of files that I add to Karaf and therefore do normally not need to be updated with every new Karaf version.
> When it comes to launching of Karaf I presently have to customise karaf.bat, karaf-service.bat and karaf-wrapper.conf. I would like those existing files to be more customisable/brandable so that I don't have to modify the Karaf distribution at all. In production, I use the wrapper service which doesn't come "unpacked" with Karaf. When I download a new version of Karaf I have to install it, start it and finally install the wrapper service. Then I have a base for customisation since until then I didn't even have access to the wrapper files bundled with Karaf.
> Personally I need to customise the following ("my reasonable limits"?):
> - Console title
> - Windows service title/name/display name/description
> - Memory requirements (-Xmx and -XX:MaxPermSize)
> - Define system properties on the command line (-D)
> - Probably need to customise the entire java command line since I might want to override parameters that are set by the Karaf distribution (e g the Derby data directory)
> - KARAF_HOME/KARAF_BASE (when running as a service)
> - Wrapper log configuration (the normal logging is specified in org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg in which case I use my own version)
> - What features to install. I use my own org.apache.karaf.features.cfg which is fine.
> - What ports to use. The reason is that we must allow more than one Karaf installation on the same server (e g production and test). Presently I therefore modify org.apache.karaf.management.cfg, org.ops4j.pax.web.cfg and org.apache.karaf.shell.cfg where I replace the ports with property placeholders that I filter with maven-assembly-plugin.
> - Additional bundles to load at startup (the reason why I started this thread on the mailing list) which I now have to add in startup.properties.
> Some of the above might be solved by using custom.properties. I have encountered problems there which is is reported in KARAF-474.
> This was discussed in the following thread: 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/karaf-user/201102.mbox/browser 
> It started on the user list but continued on the dev list, here: 
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/karaf-dev/201102.mbox/browser 

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