Mailing-List: contact dev-help@karaf.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@karaf.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
  s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;
  h=DKIM-Signature:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:From:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Subject:Date:Message-Id:To:Mime-Version:X-Mailer;
  b=dc1ouO2NGeiWcx2KbV6Dh+MiezcVq1R59u0bMTVTxeuZTh3Uue8fpiFsEainjp59kfk8M8Lp7NV35bUCTrJZpaAN+C2q4GIbJNOD/0c7S7iJsrMchENtcycX5D855ozbpWaOfP5ZVFboM2GjeKEaAyRIqTpkb4qBC04uLbEkITs=
  ;
From: David Jencks <david_jencks@yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: Possibly crazy idea about installable child instances
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:21:24 -0800
Message-Id: <24EB1644-AC6B-45DE-AAB7-1B16B00D397E@yahoo.com>
To: dev@karaf.apache.org
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084)

Geronimo needs some "special purpose" "little" servers related to the =
main one, for instance to run javaee app clients.  I'm thinking of =
implementing this as a karaf child instance.  I'm going to make a kar to =
install it (i.e. all the etc/ and such resource files will be in a kar =
under resources/instances/client/etc).

At the moment I'm thinking of just reusing most of the files from the =
main server and hand-editing them, but maybe it would be possible to =
combine things so that the server-assembly mojos generate something into =
the instances/<foo> directory and then the kar packaging step packs =
stuff into a kar.

I don't yet know if this makes sense... it would result in it being easy =
to make installable child instances with properties defined in the pom.  =
Putting the idea out in case I forget about it :-)

thanks
david jencks=