Sure. I will open a JIRA today.
Ellen
2009/11/17 Shawn Jiang <genspring@gmail.com>
> Ellen,
>
> Can you open a JIRA for this problem ?
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Ellen Tang <ltang.ellen@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for replying.
>>
>> Do you mean that we can put a "expert" or "show all" option in the "Create
>> Plugin" portlet? Because I can see the "Expert User" checkbox when I click
>> the "Assemble a server" button and choose which plugins or plugin groups to
>> include in the server assembly, but I can't see any option like that in the
>> "Create Plugin" portlet or when I click the "Export Plugin" button.
>>
>> Ellen
>>
>> 2009/11/13 Donald Woods <dwoods@apache.org>
>>
>> Yep, a "expert" or "show all" option would be the safest, where the
>>> default would be not to show any org.apache.geronimo configs.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Donald
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe Bohn wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> We do something similar to this with the "expert mode" in the various
>>>> application views where we disable actions like stop, restart, and uninstall
>>>> on system modules unless the user specifies that they are an "expert user"
>>>> via the check-box.
>>>>
>>>> To make the determination in those cases we look at the prefix for the
>>>> component id to see if it is "org.apache.geronimo.configs". However, it
>>>> seems this is no longer sufficient as our prefixes have been changing to
>>>> include o.a.g.plugins and o.a.g.framework while this feature has not been
>>>> updated. Perhaps we should change this function to only check for
>>>> "org.apache.geronimo".
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>> Ivan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It may sound a good idea, but the question is that how we could
>>>>> distinguish the system modules and applications deployed by users ?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/11/13 Ellen Tang <ltang.ellen@gmail.com <mailto:
>>>>> ltang.ellen@gmail.com>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently reviewing the contents on the UI of the "Plugins"
>>>>> portlet in G 2.2 admin console. I have a question for the "Create
>>>>> Plugin" function.
>>>>>
>>>>> As we can see, currently the drop-down list in the "Create Plugin"
>>>>> portlet shows all the CAR files on the server, including system
>>>>> plugins that already exist in the "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\"
>>>>> folder. For example, you can find the plugin
>>>>> "org.apache.geronimo.configs/activemq-broker/2.2-SNAPSHOT/car" in
>>>>> the directory
>>>>>
>>>>> "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\org\apache\geronimo\configs\activemq-broker\2.2-SNAPSHOT",
>>>>>
>>>>> which contains the "geronimo-plugin.xml" file already. However,
>>>>> according to the "Help" contents of the "Create Plugin" portlet, the
>>>>> function of this portlet is that "The console will generate the
>>>>> geronimo-plugin.xml file that stores the plugin metadata information
>>>>> for your project and package it into a car file."
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is that do we really need to include the system plugins
>>>>> in the drop-down list of the "Create Plugin" portlet? If the system
>>>>> plugins already exist in the "%GERONIMO_HOME%\repository\" folder
>>>>> and they already have the "geronimo-plugin.xml" file, the users
>>>>> would not need to use this "Create Plugin" portlet to create these
>>>>> plugins again. Besides, this portlet doesn't do anything else to the
>>>>> system plugins apart from exporting them as files, which the users
>>>>> already have in the repository. Therefore, I think it's more
>>>>> practical to only show the applications and/or application plugins
>>>>> in the drop-down list of this portlet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone think that it's a good idea to leave out the system
>>>>> plugins but only keep the application plugins in this portlet? Maybe
>>>>> we can do that in the 3.0 release?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any comments are welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Ellen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ivan
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Shawn
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