[jboss-dev] New AS Module: "depchain"

[Andrew Lee Rubinger]

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-7894

This week we've introduced a new module into AS, "depchain".  As the 
name infers, this is a single POM dependency which consumers of the 
Application Server may use to import the full runtime ClassPath into 
his/her Maven-based project.

The driving use case here is for users of the EmbeddedAS APIs; it's much 
easier for them to write and execute tests using the full runtime 
complement if they employ a ClassLoading structure where everything is 
available via parent delegation up to the appCL.  This means users are 
free to link directly to the Kernel etc without worrying about what 
other dependencies are required (and which are prohibited) at different 
ClassLoading levels to avoid NoClassDefFoundError.

In AS proper/standalone we circumvent this issue with a very explicit 
BOOT_LIBRARY set in Main, and a repackaged run.jar to boot.  For most 
users this constitutes a prohibitively difficult and involved setup.

The AS "build" module depends upon "depchain" to create the $JBOSS_HOME 
assembly.

The Ant/Standalone corollary, a single JAR dependency, is pending:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-7907

S,
ALR
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Andrew Lee Rubinger
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