discussion rhq jetty

toulmean: good day! I am looking at RHQ, investigating it to see if I can update a Java app (either a war or the whole server) connected to it via a plugin
[10:49am] toulmean: I am wasting my time or am I on to something ? Your help is appreciated!!
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[11:07am] stefan_n: toulmean, what application server would host the app?
[11:08am] toulmean: stefan_n: at this time, Jetty. But we're reasonable people 
[11:08am] toulmean: stefan_n: I read Jboss AS does support this war update capability - is is specific to JBoss AS ?
[11:08am] toulmean: stefan_n: how about headless standalone Java app ? Think I could code something ?
[11:09am] stefan_n: toulmean, RHQ relies on plugins to manage resources (application servers, platforms, sql servers)
[11:09am] stefan_n: there is no Jetty plugin at this time
[11:09am] stefan_n: there are plugins for tomcat and JBoss AS servers
[11:10am] toulmean: stefan_n: do you think it would be very hard to contribute a plugin for jetty ?
[11:10am] toulmean: as fyi, my company is the one behind jetty so we have resources
[11:10am] stefan_n: I am not very familiar with jetty, does it have JMX interface for management?
[11:10am] toulmean: I believe so.
[11:10am] stefan_n: then it should fairly easy to create a jetty plugin
[11:11am] toulmean: Let me look at your Tomcat plugin and ask the jetty team for a pain estimate
[11:11am] stefan_n: toulmean, let me know if you need any help
[11:11am] toulmean: stefan_n: I will. Thanks for helping! Very appreciated.
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[11:12am] stefan_n: if you develop a plugin for jetty then you be able to get a richer platform to manage the content deployed on jetty servers
[11:13am] stefan_n: toulmean, now if you want to just deploy files then you can use the provisioning functionality -> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Provisioning
[11:14am] toulmean: ah great stuff. Let me look
[11:17am] jsanda: gaYak: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069855
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[11:19am] jsanda: toulmean: if jetty uses jmx, your plugin could extend the jmx plugin and you will get a lot of functionality without having to write any code other than the plugin descriptor
[11:19am] jsanda: won't cover your provisioning needs, but can certainly get you started
[11:26am] toulmean: let me tell the jetty team