[ovirt-devel] Move to Jboss Wildfly - planned for Monday, June 22nd

[Roy Golan]

On 06/21/2015 03:21 PM, Oved Ourfali wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Roy Golan" <rgolan at redhat.com>
>> To: "Oved Ourfali" <ovedo at redhat.com>, "devel" <devel at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 3:19:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Move to Jboss Wildfly - planned for Monday, June 22nd
>>
>> On 06/18/2015 09:13 AM, Oved Ourfali wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 22nd, 11:00 CET, we plan to drop JBoss 7.1 support in oVirt
>>> 3.6 and move to Jboss WildFly 8.2
>>> (we're still doing final verifications, but it looks promising).
>>>
>>> This will allow us to support Fedora 22 properly, and in future versions to
>>> leverage some new and cool features.
>>>
>>> In addition, Jboss WildFly 8.2 works with OpenJDK 1.8 so you can easily use
>>> it for
>>> development on newer distributions where OpenJDK 1.7 is not available
>>> (Fedora 21 and 22, for example).
>> May need a separate thread for that, but we will be able to code using
>> JDK 8. its about time. jdk 8 was out April 2014.
>>
> We will still work with JDK7 for downstream.

this should go on a separate thread :)
>
>>> When the patch [1] is merged, you will need WildFly 8.2 to be able to
>>> develop
>>> oVirt engine 3.6. Please use following guideline and update your
>>> development
>>> environment:
>>>
>>> I. Using WildFly 8.2 for oVirt 3.6 development
>>>
>>>    1. Enable ovirt-master-snapshot-static repository on your development
>>>    machine
>>>         [ovirt-master-snapshot-static]
>>>         name=Latest oVirt master additional nightly snapshot
>>>         baseurl=http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-master-snapshot-static/rpm/@DIST@$releasever/
>>>         enabled=1
>>>         skip_if_unavailable=1
>>>         gpgcheck=0
>>>
>>>       Please replace "@DIST@" with "fc" for Fedora or "el" for Centos/RHEL
>>>
>>>    2. Install WildFly packages:
>>>         yum install ovirt-engine-wildfly ovirt-engine-wildfly-overlay
>>>
>>>    3. Rebase your patches and build oVirt engine (assuming "~/ovirt-engine"
>>>    as
>>>       destination)
>>>         make install-dev
>>>
>>>    5. Setup WildFly overlay (assuming "~/ovirt-engine" as destination)
>>>         echo
>>>         "ENGINE_JAVA_MODULEPATH=\"/usr/share/ovirt-engine-wildfly-overlay/modules:\${ENGINE_JAVA_MODULEPATH}\""
>>>         \
>>>             > ~/ovirt-engine/etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/20-setup-jboss-overlay.conf
>>>
>>>    6. Execute setup
>>>         cd ~/ovirt-engine
>>>         ./bin/engine-setup
>>>
>>>    7. Start engine service
>>>         cd ~/ovirt-engine
>>>         ./share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine/ovirt-engine.py start
>>>
>>>
>>> II. Using JBoss 7.1.1 for 3.5 environment
>> why would anyone want to do that?
>>
> Bugs!

only for out (last?) z stream which will be 3.5.4. other then that, its 
really the end.
>
>>>    Using JBoss 7.1.1 on 3.5 is still possible, by doing the following:
>>>
>>>     1. Install JBoss 7.1.1 RPM from ovirt-master-snapshot-static repo using
>>>          yum install ovirt-engine-jboss-as
>>>
>>>     2. Build oVirt engine 3.5 with your backported feature (assuming
>>>        "~/ovirt-engine" as destination)
>>>          make install-dev
>>>         
>>>     3. Execute setup
>>>          cd ~/ovirt-engine
>>>          ./bin/engine-setup--jboss-home=/usr/share/ovirt-engine-jboss-as
>>>
>>>     4. Start engine service
>>>          cd ~/ovirt-engine
>>>          ./share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine/ovirt-engine.py start
>>>       
>>> Once merged, we will send an E-mail to make sure you're all aware, and that
>>> you can do the steps described above.
>>>
>>> We're here for any issue you might have (specifically Martin who is
>>> responsible for this effort, and myself).
>>> Don't hesitate to contact us for any issue, either by mail or irc (mperina
>>> or oved).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Oved
>>>
>>> [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/40152
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