[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of Mail Services] - Re: JBoss Mail Server M3-pre1

[mikezzz <nu...@jb...>]

Hi Andy,

I had a quick go with the new installer.  Looks good I think it is definitely the way forward.  I didn't get a running version as I had some problems checking out 4.0.3 rc3 (cvs co jboss-4.0 gives you 5.0.0) and tried to make it work on 4.0.2, which doesn't seem to like exploded har files.  Will get 4.0.3 this weekend and get it working.

A couple of comments, these are mostly cosmetic and pie in the sky stuff.

Choosing between a new or existing jboss install is a little clumsy.  On the Installation location page it would nice to have 3 radio button options:

- New install, with text field and browse button.
- Existing install, with text field, browse button and select box indicating with server configuration to use (we could produce a list once the directory is selected).  We could also default the jboss installation from the JBOSS_HOME environment variable if it exists.
- Create deployable EAR.  Useful for deploying to headless servers/clusters.

The packages screen would be read-only as the above selection will dictate what pacages to use.

In the longer term it would be nice to support more advanced configurations and be able to set all of the options on all of the MBeans.  E.g. being able to set options for performance tuning would be nice.  Perhaps an "Advanded" button on some of the pages which shows more detailed options.

I also noticed that if you reinstall it over an existing install it fails.  Something to do with keystore generation.

Mike.

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