[Mulgara-general] General questions and documentation

[Alex Hall]

Paul Gearon wrote:
[snip]
>> So I have a few general questions.  Most obviously, do I have the
>> right impression?  Which is, it'll be pretty simple to package up
>> Mulgara with some data as a domain-specific application, so the user
>> can just click on some kind of install program, and then fire up the
>> browser to work with the data.  A web admin interface, that would
>> allow the user to e.g. ask for statistics about the database, shut it
>> down, restart it, etc. - I assume that would not be especially
>> complicated.  Am I deceived?
> 
> To spin it up this way should be pretty easy, though it would take a
> little code.
> 
> We currently start up a Jetty server, and load a couple of webapps
> into it. The best place for your webadmin interface would be as
> another webapp. Unfortunately, these webapps aren't listed in the XML
> config file, though they should be. Right now it's just a couple of
> repeated lines of code with different webapp names for each one, so it
> will be trivial set this up appropriately for you.

Just a quick note -- if starting/stopping the database is to be one of
the operations in the web admin interface, then I don't think you'd be
able to implement that as a webapp in Jetty because stopping Mulgara
would also stop Jetty.  Most likely you'd need to deploy the Mulgara
WAR; unfortunately I don't have any experience with this.

Regards,
Alex