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

[Tim Fox]

Clebert Suconic wrote:
>  > 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.

+1

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

How about we expand jboss-aop-client.jar to include the missing jars? 
(aop, trove + javassist)

> 
> 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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