On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Jay Shaughnessy wrote:
On 3/22/2012 1:20 PM, Ian Springer wrote:
> The traditional definition of the three Resource categories is:
>
> * platform - a machine (may be physical or virtual)
> * server - a process running on a machine
> * service - some entity within a process
>
Is there any functional difference between the categories? e.g. is there something a user
can do with a platform that can not be done with a service or is the construct purely
organizational? afaict the only difference is how rhq behaves with respect to import.
> IMO, these should all be switched over to services, so we are
> consistently following the above definitions.
>
>
I totally agree, this drives me crazy. We completely overuse Server. I'm not sure
why one plugin would even define more than one Server. Every Server should be a top level
server.
ditto.
>
> So I vote to make all of the AS7 subsystems services, and not servers.
> And I think we should seriously switching all existing non-top-level
> server types to service types.
>
and ditto. imo at best any user-value of categorization is lost given the inconsistency,
at worst it's actively adding to confusion or noise when first introduced.