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[09:51:39 EDT(-0400)] * esm (n=esm@asdf.dkc.jhu.edu) has joined ##uportal
[09:52:12 EDT(-0400)] * EricDalquist (n=dalquist@bohemia.doit.wisc.edu) has joined ##uportal
[09:56:18 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> morning
[10:08:23 EDT(-0400)] <esm> morning
[10:09:21 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> I'm way behind on maven for the trunk
[10:09:31 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> these 2.6 issues are sucking up the time
[10:09:45 EDT(-0400)] <esm> yeah if you want I can take a look at it
[10:09:56 EDT(-0400)] <esm> probably not until Friday though
[10:10:09 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> that would probably be helpful just to review what I've done so far
[10:10:27 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> so right now I'm thinking of still doing an EAR file
[10:10:43 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> and then having a tomcat specific assembly for dealing with container wide JDBC drivers
[10:12:02 EDT(-0400)] <esm> ok
[10:12:12 EDT(-0400)] <esm> so the tomcat-specific assembly will be an overlay?
[10:12:18 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[10:12:24 EDT(-0400)] <esm> user cd's into their tomcat directory and unzips the overlay?
[10:12:25 EDT(-0400)] <esm> ok
[10:12:37 EDT(-0400)] <esm> that sounds cool
[10:12:50 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> it would explode the EAR into webapps and shared/lib directories
[10:12:57 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> then add the JDBC driver to common/lib
[10:13:10 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> that last bit is all that the assembly needs to do
[10:17:25 EDT(-0400)] <esm> so the entire uportal distribution is packaged as a tomcat overlay?
[10:17:50 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> there would likely need to be a dist assembly as well
[10:18:01 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> that included some documentation with the tomcat overlay
[10:18:36 EDT(-0400)] <esm> yeah
[10:19:05 EDT(-0400)] <esm> the tomcat overlay distribution would already be packaged with the webapps exploded
[10:19:15 EDT(-0400)] <esm> so there won't be an ear file in the overlay right?
[10:19:22 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> correct
[10:19:27 EDT(-0400)] <esm> ok
[10:19:47 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> so we'll likely end up having some disccusions about how we want to package distributions
[10:20:10 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> there could be the option of having a tomcat-dist and a generic-dist
[10:20:28 EDT(-0400)] <esm> well
[10:20:39 EDT(-0400)] <esm> right now we'd have to have a tomcat-5-dist and a tomcat-6-dist
[10:20:51 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> with the generic having the same documentation but packaging the actual EAR in it
[10:20:52 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[10:21:01 EDT(-0400)] <esm> or i guess we just decide to support one or the other
[10:21:08 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist>
[10:21:19 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> for now the target is tomcat 55
[10:21:27 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> we'll see where we go from here
[10:22:20 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> right now I think I have enough of a plan sketched out so I can complete mavenizing the current code base
[10:22:28 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> so we can start on the other tasks
[10:22:43 EDT(-0400)] <esm> ok
[10:23:02 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> some of this is going to be a bit ugly until we get other pieces in place
[10:23:22 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> like I think the EAR packaging and running the deployer on the portlet WARs is going to be a bit hackish for a while
[10:23:42 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> at least until we get to pluto 1.1 and can use the nice ear packager you made in the sandbox