[Hawkular-dev] Downsizing the Nest deployments

[Peter Palaga]

On 2016-02-04 13:28, Peter Palaga wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> there is a couple of jars our war deployments could load from WF modules
> that are available either on a stock WF/EAP installation (apache
> commons.*, guava 18, ...) or that are our own (c* driver, guava 16).
>
> Technically, it would mean to mark those dependencies as provided and
> declare them as dependencies in jboss-deployment-structure.xml.
>
> The motivation is twofold:
>
> (1) Make clear that (if applicable) it is the container teams who is
> responsible for sustaining and productization of the jars.

This makes it IMO also much easier to patch production systems: instead 
if repackaging our wars with the fixed version of a lib, one can patch 
the impacted WF modules using the WF patch mechanism. -- PP


> (2) Make the wars smaller - faster to build, faster to release/upload,
> faster to download, faster to deploy.
>
> Can anybody see a reason why we should not follow this strategy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
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