[jboss-dev] AOP and dependencies on jbossall-client.jar

[Clebert Suconic]

 > My vote is that jbossall-client.jar is just dropped. Its just duplicate
 > bloat that is wrong depending on what features your using.

+1... for JBoss 5.


But for JBoss AS 4.3....  we have users still using it.

Scott M Stark wrote:
> My vote is that jbossall-client.jar is just dropped. Its just duplicate
> bloat that is wrong depending on what features your using.
> 
> Clebert Suconic wrote:
>> I believe this is an old issue, as I remember already seeing some thread
>> about this some time ago. (2 years maybe... man.. that seems yesterday
>> :-) )
>>
>> But now that JBossMessaging is part of JBoss 5 Betas, and JBoss EAP 4.3,
>> this is becoming more relevant for our users.
>>
>> Since JBoss Messaging 1.4 is using AOP on both client and server, users
>> can't just use jboss-allclient.jar on their classpath. They also have to
>> include all the AOP dependencies (like javassist, aop itself and trove),
>> so the jbossall-client.jar is broken on the user's experience:
>>
>> http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=129155
>>
>>
>> So, can we add AOP and dependencies to jbossall-client.jar. Or
>> better.... can't we just deliver an empty jar referencing the other jars
>> required on the client?
>>
>>
>> I tried to do that also on the EAP 4.3, but production guys told me that
>> the CLASSPATH metainf thing is being deprecated, so we were stuck with
>> the old way of doing it. Maybe we need to just add those class there,
>> or.. is there any way to do it?
>>
>> I have also created a Dev forum at JBoss Messaging Developer's:
>>
>>
>> http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=129288
>>
>>
>> If nobody thinks there is an issue, I will just fix that adding the AOP
>> dependencies into jbossall-client.jar, for next JBoss 5 and EAP 4.3
>> releases.
>>
>>
>> Clebert
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