[jboss-dev] new shared JBOSS_HOME/server/lib directory

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Ok, so after this discussion the shared library directory has moved to JBOSS_HOME/common/lib.

2 new properties were introduced:

- jboss.common.base.url defaulting to ${jboss.home.url}/common
- jboss.common.lib.url defaulting to ${jboss.common.base.url}/lib

(In case we want to introduce other common stuff, configuration or otherwise)

The jboss.shared.lib.url references were removed.

Cheers
/Dimitris

PS
Andrew, maybe you want to re-synch the forked bootstrap project.

Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> Any preferences between
>>
>> JBOSS_HOME/common/lib
>> vs
>> JBOSS_HOME/shared/lib?
>>
> 
> Both bring to mind the Tomcat 5.5 and earlier $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
> and $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib. Probably will have the same association 
> for others, so I recommend we consider the meaning of those and try to 
> be consistent.
> 
> Those directories each serves as a resource location for a classloader, 
> described as follows [1]:
> 
> Common - This class loader contains additional classes that are made 
> visible to both Tomcat internal classes and to all web applications. 
> Normally, application classes should NOT  be placed here.
> 
> Shared - This class loader is the place to put classes and resources 
> that you wish to share across ALL  web applications (unless Tomcat 
> internal classes also need access, in which case you should put them in 
> the Common  class loader instead).
> 
> 
> Neither of those descriptions exactly matches the JBoss directory, since 
> "application classes should NOT be placed " in $JBOSS_HOME/common/lib 
> isn't technically true.  But still, I think "common" better matches what 
> we are trying to do, since jars placed in it are most definitely meant 
> to be visible to internal JBoss classes.
> 
> Note that in Tomcat 6, common/lib and shared/lib are gone, with 
> common/lib functionally replaced by a plain lib/ [2]
> 
> [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html
> [2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html
> 
>