Re: [jetty-dev] Jetty Plugin Functionality / Getting rid of Jetty Highti

[Thomas Becker <tbecker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

sounds good. Like the idea. I will split the task into smaller subtasks and will get some proof of concept working. Then I will describe what I've done here for discussion and refactor afterwards to implement new ideas from the discussion.

1. Enhance start.ini mechanism to allow additive files the way Greg described. If another way of modifying the contents of start.ini comes to my mind, I'll let you know.

2. Make plugins available for download. This will most probably be done using aether (http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/08/introducing-aether/) and add this functionality to start.jar (--list-plugins, --install-plugin). Plugins will be hosted at maven central as discussed.

Everything else will remain as is. Installing a plugin will add files to $JETTY_HOME/etc, $JETTY_HOME/lib, ...

In the next step we've to think about how to deal with plugins that add more than just some config and libraries (webapps, etc.) like jetty-jmx-ws.

Greg, does this sound like a good way to get something going for you?

Cheers,
Thomas

On 11/15/11 6:48 PM, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:

Greg,

I think this will support our use case in an easy and simple way!

OPTIONS will inherently be additive, so the += might be superfluous. But that might be getting into bike shed territory..

Thanks,
Eirik.

Den 14. nov. 2011 05.53 skrev "Greg Wilkins" <gregw@xxxxxxxxxxx> følgende:

How about a start.d directory that contains multiple start.ini format files, that are concatenated together to form an effective start.ini ?

We'd need to add += semantics so that for a typical module, their would be file start.d/10-foo.ini

  -Dsome.foo.property=value
  OTPIONS+=foo
  etc/jetty-foo.xml


cheers




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