Re: Continuum installation approach...

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

I'll review these documents, as this should no longer be necessary.

- Brett

On 01/03/2007, at 1:44 AM, Thierry Lach wrote:

> I'm very much in favor of being able to download a war or an ear  
> and drop it
> in place.
>
> But...
>
> So far some of the instructions that I've seen make a "download-and- 
> install"
> approach difficult.
>
> For example, changing the application name and email subject line  
> require
> editing a plexus configuration file under the WEB-INF/classes  
> directory (
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUMUSER/Deploying).
>
> I don't see such modifications as removing a jar file from the lib  
> directory
> (as suggested for the derby jar in
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUMUSER/Continuum+on+Tomcat)  
> as being
> a problem, given the graphical zip file editors that are available,  
> but
> editing and replacing a configuration file inside a war or an ear is a
> little more complicated (and therefor error prone).  Also, such  
> manual edits
> cannot be easily automated.
>
>
>
> On 2/28/07, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> We should be able support anything people can test and document.
>>
>> The best tested will probably remain the plexus app server and/or
>> jetty, using derby.
>>
>> - Brett
>>
>> On 01/03/2007, at 12:41 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>>
>> > On 2/28/07, Emmanuel Venisse <em...@venisse.net> wrote:
>> >> users download the war file and deploy it, they can use the
>> >> standalone app too.
>> >
>> > Is the WAR expected to run on any app server? Or are we going to
>> > support a specific app server? Or a few?
>> >
>> > What about databases? Are we going to assume Derby? I'd be fine  
>> with
>> > that, just checking.
>>
>>