evanmiller/ChicagoBoss — Issue #75: Make it possible to start additional OTP-Applications
Author: hirschenberger
Created: 2012-02-17 00:02:56+00:00
State: open

It should be possible to specify additional (external) OTP-Applications to be started in the `boss.conf` file. It is usefull to implement some complex backend functionality (e.g. `gen_fsm` ...)

A possible solution would be to add an `{included_applications, [myapp]}` tag to `boss.conf` which will be added to the boss application's environment.
When the boss-app is starting it evaluates this list and starts the apps in boss' supervisor.

I can try to implement it if you think it is a clean way and the feature is wanted.