Windows installer musings

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/26/14, 2:38 AM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
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>How would you compare the Atlassian model to Jetty's ? Both have
>externalized config, but one copies files to a single tree while the
>other allows parallel ordered trees ? Does my question make sense ?

I know Java and Jetty support actual web.xml (and maybe even war?)
overlays at this point, but the comparison I would make is that Jetty is
the actual container, so they have the freedom to arrange files however
they want to, they just have to write code to handle it. But Atlassian's
approach is needed for a webapp if you ignore runtime overlays as a
feature, because they have to actually produce a single war tree at the
end of the process.

In other words, adopting something like what Jetty's doing with a webapp
itself was really not possible until recently, and I don't know if it's
possible now or not.

We're really just talking about the final build step, and whether that's a
requirement.

-- Scott