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Akanaka10 karma

Will Liberty support the java:app/ JNDI namespace for embedded data sources and other stuff?

Akanaka7 karma

Stop spreading FUD, you filthy weasel. Things like TomEE, Resin and yes even Liberty -are- lightweight by pretty much every definition of the word. TomEE for instance is 25mb total, starts up in seconds, runs in 64mb of memory and has an elegant and simple programming model (eg not a single line of XML configuration is needed, a simple web page with backing business logic can be setup in minutes at most, etc).

Akanaka5 karma

It absolutely rocks that you are working towards an official web profile implementation, but what about the next step? Having a Liberty Full Profile? Is that a goal for Liberty?

Currently if you need the full profile (like for eg JMS, or @Asynchronous, etc), you still need the full WAS, but then you also get the "large-scale admin capabilities", which as a developer I don't need.

Akanaka2 karma

This sounds better than the steps your teammate Tom listed above. Is the "server.bat (server.sh?) create" step already optional?

Akanaka2 karma

It's pretty good, but there's some room for improvement still ;)

  1. Offer a regular .zip or .tar.gz. This is really a minor thing, but it's much more the norm.
  2. Skip step 3. Just cut it out ;)
  3. Remove <your server name here> in step 4. If Liberty internally needs a server name, check for the existence of a default server name and if it doesn't exist create it on the fly. Don't bother first time users with some internal detail. Maybe advanced users use different named servers, but beginners and even intermediate users just don't need this. Just think about the following: does Tomcat/TomEE require a named server to be created? If the answer is no, why should Liberty require this?

Hope this feedback helps ;)