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Re: Create domain and extensibility

From: vince kraemer <Vince.Kraemer_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:59:50 -0800

Answers in-line below...

vbk

Kedar Mhaswade wrote:
> Frankly, what pluggability means for create-domain functionality is a
> tricky thing to figure out. This is mainly because asadmin is not a
> modular VM unlike server. Thus, it can't leverage the @Contract/_at_Service
> stuff and ask the various contributing modules to create their
> configuration. And remember, it is not just about domain.xml.
>
> Some work needs to go into this because it might entail defining
> an API for various modules to implement so that we can call various
> implementing modules to do their part of domain creation.
>
> I agree, either the extensibility or the infrastructure spec should
> describe this in detail.
>
> Vince -- sorry to be deferring answering your question. But this is
> something that needs some time. Are you interested in port allocation
> part of create-domain or something else as well?

Port allocation is important to me... since the server integration
plugin for NB allows users to create domains pretty easily.

This question was prompted by a more 'general curiosity', based on
starting to think through the effects of profiles and extensibility on
the integration story for NB 7.0...

vbk
 
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> -Kedar
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