[jbosstools-dev] Any interest in splitting 'common' module up?

[Rob Stryker]

I've attached another screenshot detailing links from other components 
into individual plugins inside common. What you can see in the attached 
image is that there are several plugins with *many* incoming arrows. 
text.ext, text.xml, el.core, common.model, common, common.validation, 
common.verification, common.ui, etc.

But there are also a wide array of plugins that do not seem to have any 
links, or very few. resref.core and resref.ui seem to have only one link 
to vpe. And the entire group of plugins in the upper left corner have no 
obvious links at all. o.j.t.c.j.debug.core/ui seem to have no links in 
this new image, AND no links in the previous image of within common only.

capabilities and mylyn seem to have no obvious links to anything inside 
common or outside of it. Very strange indeed.

Because I'm trying to omit the extra links which just make the graph 
look very messy, we can't really tell any more whether, for example, 
el.core REALLY needs resref or if some of that code would be more 
appropriately moved out of el.core and into resref directly.

Anyway, these graphs are not foolproof. They won't catch all references 
since it's possible openshift depends on one common plugin which also 
exposes another. So there's no guarantees here. But it's a start.

Whatever is considered to separate it though, these two graphs will come 
in very handy in both showing the inner-dependencies and outward 
dependencies of the common component.

On 08/15/2012 03:12 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Rob, +1 for this initiative - love your "visualizer" view ;)
>
>> I'm just trying to get the ball moving on a possible breakup of the 'common' module. Common is currently FULL of all sorts of different stuff. It has 23 plugins, 10 tests, and 13 features. Since we've just finished a major release, now is the time to discuss reorganizations. I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes. Even fi I don't end up doing the work, it's at least time to open the discussion.
> I know I said yesterday common probably needs to be split up, but with 13 features aren't common already split up to be reusable independently ?
>
> Any value do do further splitting ?
>
> Which components are "not common" ?
>
> /max
>


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