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Proposal for better/simpler bundling. See
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Rationale
The current bundling of Magnolia has several drawbacks:
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- one single file to download; double-clickable. (
java -jar magnolia-standalone.(j|w)ar
) - minimal gui on startup (or shell console or options if no screen is available, obviously), asking for (for example):
- magnolia_home ? (defaults to current folder)
- http port (defaults to 8080)
- instance name/contextPath ? (defaults to magnoliaAuthor?)
- is author/public
- subscriber address (defaults to demopublic.magnolia-cms.com?)
- starts an embedded appserver (http://winstone.sourceforge.net/Winstone, Jetty, ...) with ONE instance of Magnolia.
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- well, we have that already, but we might want to think about a solution for avoiding the ones specific to weblogic, websphere, ...
Additional ideas (2009-06-23)
- auto-discovery of other instances (Bonjour?)
- "this is a public instance, you need to start an author instance as well"
- "this is an author instance, where is your public instance?"
- while this might be worth a separate feature on its own, this popped up while discussing the standalone bundles - use Bonjour/ZeroConf for subscribers discovery/configuration ?
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