Hi David and everyone,
Any progress on this?
Thanks
-Vincent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jencks [mailto:david_jencks@yahoo.com]
> Sent: lundi 30 janvier 2006 08:23
> To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Multiple servers sharing the same repo and config store
>
> Many people have talked on and off about how to set up multiple
> servers sharing the same repository and config-store, but we haven't
> arrived at an agreed on way to do it. We have a prospective customer
> for this feature (Vincent Massol with Cargo) so I'd like to move
> beyond thinking about it in my head, discuss it, and have someone
> implement it. I believe any implementation will be more or less
> trivial, the hard part is figuring out what to do.
>
> I've only thought of ways to extend what we have now, rather than
> restructure anything or add big new capabilities. If someone sees a
> better way, please speak up.
>
> So, we have a ServerInfo gbean that knows where geronimo is located
> and can resolve absolute locations for other components. Then we
> have things like the repository and config store gbeans that
> typically are "located" outside the var dir and things like the
> logging framework, local attribute manager, derby, and tomcat, that
> typically keep stuff in the var directory.
>
> All or most of these start with the first configuration loaded so
> they can't have any attributes overridden by config.xml: in fact this
> file is read by one of the gbeans that we need to "relocate".
>
> I've thought of two related solutions. Both of them involve giving
> ServerInfo knowledge of another path and another resolve method.
>
> One would be something like "resolveVar" and would normally resolve
> to geronimo_home/var. This would involve all the gbeans currently
> looking inside var having the "var" trimmed off the front of their
> paths and using the new resolveVar method. In this case we'd have
> different servers represented as e.g.
> var1
> var2
> var3
> ...
>
>
> The other would give ServerInfo something like resolveServer which
> would normally resolve to geronimo_home. The gbeans looking inside
> var would keep their current paths and just call the new resolve
> method instead of the old one. In this case we'd have servers like
> var
> server1/var
> server2/var
> ...
>
> In either case I think starting geronimo with a command line argument
> pointing to the var directory is the only way to specify which server
> you want to run; the default would presumably be as now "var".
>
> Several people have suggested putting an additional config-store into
> var for "private" use by a particular server. At the moment I think
> that providing a different config-store class that uses the new
> resolve method on server info would be the best way to do this.
>
>
> I'm not attached to these ideas but this is as far as my thinking has
> gone. Please comment.
>
> thanks
> david jencks
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