[chef] Re: WARNING for JBoss AS7 users

[Peter Donald < >]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Bryan Berry 
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 wrote:
> If you use JBoss AS 7.1.1 along with Chef, you should know that JBoss AS 7
> will change the contents of your main XML configuration file on disk by
> removing comments, adding or removing line breaks, and reordering
> attributes.
>
> If you have a jboss service resource that subscribes to that config file, it
> will detect that the file and has changed and restart the service on every
> chef-client run. I found this out the hard way

This seems to be a problem that afflicts multiple java application
servers. In the glassfish space, both the message broker ad the
application server can rewrite their configuration files. I have had
to go to some lengths to parse the configuration files and check for
the values I want to specify as part of a resources guard. Have you
found a better way to do this?



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Cheers,

Peter Donald