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JBoss AS7 vs AS6
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modified by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/dimitris">Dimitris Andreadis</a> in <i>JBoss AS7 Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16778">View the full document</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><h1>Distribution Changes</h1><table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="jiveBorder" height="86" style="border: 1px solid #000000; width: 856px;"><tbody><tr><th align="center" style="background-color: #6690bc;;border: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #6690bc;" valign="middle"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>AS7</strong></span></th><th align="center" style="background-color: #6690bc;;border: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #6690bc;" valign="middle"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>AS6</strong></span></th><th align="center" style="background-color: #6690bc;;border: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #6690bc;" valign="middle"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Comments</strong></span></th></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><br/></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><br/></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><br/></td></tr><tr><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">./modules</td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;"><p>./common/lib</p></td><td style="border: 1px solid #000000;">AS6 common/lib directory contained system and user jar files shared among different configurations. There is no shared dir in AS7 in which to simply drop in jars files that will be globally accessible by all deployments. The top level ./modules directory can be used instead to explicitly define modules that are referenced by deployments. See related discussion <a class="" href="http://community.jboss.org/message/604576#604576">here</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h1>Features missing from AS7 relative to AS6</h1><h2>Clustering</h2><ul><li>No CMP2 clustering</li><li>server.xml</li><li>Farming (replaced by domain deployments)</li></ul><h2>JCA</h2><ul><li>no-tx-datasource</li><li>HSQLDB</li><li>No -ds.xml deployments within archives (.ear)</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h2>Varia</h2><ul><li></li></ul></div>
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