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Re: [wtp-dev] Design Question: Server Commands
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John,
What you are describing seems similiar to the behaviour provided by the
startBeforePublish flag in the org.eclipse.wst.server.core.serverTypes
extension.
--
Gorkem
John Houston wrote:
I have a question about WTP’s expected behavior for server commands
when server models might not apply for those commands. Specifically,
I’d like to know about “Publish” vs. “Start.”
For the Tomcat server model, “Publish” is to deploy web artifacts into
a Tomcat runtime, whereas “Start” is to kick off a server process to
run the deployed files. Here, “Publish” and “Start” are independent –
a user can start a Tomcat runtime without deploying files, and a user
can publish (or deploy) an app without starting the server process.
But is that still the expected behavior of these commands for servers
that don’t necessarily fit into that model? For example, if it doesn’t
make sense for a server to publish without starting the server (in
other words, the publish and the start are very closely tied
together), then should the server runtime extension developer work
into that model (“Publish” to a temp directory, for example) or should
the server runtime extension developer treat the commands as a “best
fit” (“Publish” will leave the server in a started state)?
The UI developer in me sees the architecture from the UI POV and
thinks that a UI with commands that behave significantly differently
is typically a red flag for a poor UI. On the other hand, I understand
that a “best fit” model is more true to the commands that a server
runtime offers. Here are the options as I see them:
1- Work the server instance into the existing “Publish” / “Start” system
2- Let the “Publish” / “Start” commands mean different things
depending on runtime type
3- Submit a patch to update the UI so that “Publish” / “Start” are
extensible to other server publish models
Can you provide me with some background about how the “Publish” /
“Start” system came about and which option might be best of the above
options?
-- John
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