Re: Deployment Dependencies

[Jeff Genender <jg...@savoirtech.com>]

Arron,

This is a great idea.  +1 on both counts.

Jeff

> All,
> 	So the JSR-88 DeploymentManager needs to reference the
> DConfigBeans of all the module types.  This includes at least:
>
>  * Connector Builder
>  * Jetty Builder
>  * Tomcat Builder
>  * OpenEJB Builder
>  * shared Builders (naming, security, etc.)
>
> 	The problem is that right now, the DeploymentManager is in
> deploy-tool, the DConfigBeans are in *-builder modules, and the *-builder
> modules depend on deploy-tool.  Which of course means that deploy-tool
> cannot depend on them.
>
> 	So I think we need to:
>
>  - Separate the DeploymentManager implementations from deploy-tool, into a
>    mini-module that depends on deploy-tool and *-builder.
>
>  - Move toward a unified web builder for both Tomcat and Jetty.  I
>    personally feel that it's mandatory to make the WAR configuration the
>    same regardless of which container you happen to have deployed, and it
>    also would save us from having two different JSR-88 DeploymentManager
>    configurations that you have to pick from (presumably based on the
>    connection URL you provide) depending on which web container you happen
>    to want to run on.
>
> Aaron
>