Running JBoss Tools with separately installed EAP on Linux.
Our developer workstations are running RHEL, and developers log onto them with their personal IDs, with which they can open up Eclipse, load up JBoss Tools, and whatever else they need. We have EAP 6.2 also installed on there via the repository. This installs it into several directories (based in /usr/share/jbossas to begin with), and all owned by the jboss id/group, which the repository installation created itself. Our problem is that users need to connect into this JBoss instance from Eclipse, however their personal IDs have no access to the directories owned by the jboss user.
Is there a good way of doing this? We could have them use the jboss ID to run Eclipse (not ideal, as there will be other non-JBoss development), and we could also try to open up permissions, perhaps give their personal IDs group access (again not ideal). Anyone know of a best practice for
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Hi Mike
Just to re-iterate what we discussed on the phone.
For a development environment would it not be better to have local ZIP installs of EAP instances for developers instead of RPMS? That would remove the issue completely.
Executable permissions are good for testing/staging and production environments but for development environments, having local EAP instances for developers without permissions is easier. It would be easier to ship a configured EAP instance to a central repo for developers to check out and use.
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