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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:14:15 -0500
From: Donald Woods <dwoods@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Make "framework" build the entire framework server
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Sounds worth the time to try it out.

Two requests:
1) If this works, we publish the framework assembly instead of the two 
minimal assemblies to the Download page for 2.2, as this would allow 
users to build their own custom minimal server assembly (and of course 
some docs telling users how to create the old minimal assembly from this 
new framework assembly.)
2) If time permits, can we move or duplicate relevant testsuite modules 
into a new testsuite dir under either the framework dir or a new 
framework-testsuite dir, so that we can verify the basic framework 
cmdline scripts and installing plugins (like Jetty/Tomcat to make an 
equivalent minimal assembly)?


-Donald


David Jencks wrote:
> I'd like to play around with trying to make gbeans less restrictive and 
> possibly some classloading ideas.  This would be a lot easier if I had a 
> smaller project to deal with.  So, I'd like to make it so that framework 
> is self contained and builds the entire framework server.  I haven't 
> looked at this too closely recently but I think it involves:
> 
> moving all or part of buildsupport into framework (at least 
> car-maven-plugin)
> moving the framework plugingroup into framework
> moving the boilerplate and framework assemblies into framework.
> 
> I suggested this a few months back (sept 23 2008) and there were some 
> objections I didn't fully understand.  Right now I'm sure this would 
> make my day to day development life a lot easier so if there are 
> objections I'd really appreciate knowing how specifically this would 
> make your day to day development life harder.
> 
> thanks
> david jencks
> 
>