I second Ludo's point. It should be possible to keep any user created
data outside of installation directory.
Suresh
ludo wrote:
> Rajiv Mordani wrote:
>
>> Thanks Shreedhar. In my opinion if one has a running domain it should
>> continue to run as is when we move to
>> a newer version of glassfish, specially if it is just a bug fix
>> release. I am not advocating build to build updates but atleast
>> have the ability to update from say the fcs build of glassfish v1 to
>> the fcs build of glassfish v1 ur1. Build to build
>> would be a nice to have. I think we should definitely look at an
>> upgrade story for glassfish.
>>
>> - Rajiv
>>
>
>
> One thing we could consider in the future is to put the default
> domains/ location outside the installation directory of the server.
> These domains are really parts of "My Documents" or my user directory.
> So by installing a new server (or upgrading the bits), the domains
> area would stay intact.
> Then the task of being able to understand or and migrate this domains
> area would be done at server start-up time: a server version should
> know the domain version and do the appropriate upgrade, or tell the
> user that this domain is *not* compatible with this server version.
>
> Netbeans has similar concept with a NetBeans user dir (IDE settings),
> as well as Eclipse (called workspace).
> Do you store your OpenOffice or MSDTOffice documents in the
> installation directory? Not me.
>
> Ludo
>
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