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Re: lopsidedness of domaindir usage?

From: Lloyd Chambers <Lloyd.Chambers_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:37:38 -0700

+1

...and please be prepared to have an interface to "import" when doing
ARC review. :)


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Lloyd Chambers
lloyd.chambers_at_sun.com
GlassFish team, LSARC member

On Sep 11, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:

> Peter Williams wrote:
>> The NetBeans plugin MUST have the process handle of the server
>> process to manage it properly. This is simply not obtainable when
>> starting the server via the asadmin command.
>> I am quite happy to accept that in return for requirement, our
>> plugin must take over launcher duties and properly interpret
>> domain.xml to ensure the server is started correctly. The current
>> V3 NetBeans plugin does this.
>> The benefits of having the Java Process object for the server
>> process more than outweigh the cost of writing a few lines of code
>> to read XML and substitute a few variables.
>
> If NetBeans needs to do this, please tell me that it's using a
> GlassFish-defined class to do this work. I think it's a bad idea
> to duplicate the code that processes domain.xml and decides how to
> launch the JVM for GlassFish into NetBeans. Shouldn't this be an
> API exposed by the GlassFish launcher class? Worst case, the command
> that Kedar proposed to "tell me what java command to use to start the
> server" would do.
>
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