[wildfly-dev] Are standalone/lib and standalone/lib/ext folders (still) relevant?

Jaikiran Pai jpai at redhat.com
Tue Jul 9 09:08:07 EDT 2013


Thanks. I had forgotten about the Extension-List EE support.

-Jaikiran
On Tuesday 09 July 2013 02:08 PM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> standalone/lib/ext is where extension jars are loaded from.
>
> Basically if a deployment contains an Extension-List entry in 
> MANIFEST.MF then this is one of the places that is searched 
> (see org.jboss.as.server.moduleservice.ExtensionIndexService for 
> details).
>
> The whole extension-index thing is pretty yuck, and we would always 
> recommend you use static modules instead, but this is a standard thing 
> and we are required by the EE platform spec to support it.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at redhat.com 
> <mailto:jpai at redhat.com>>wrote:
>
>     I don't recollect how the standalone/lib and standalone/lib/ext
>     folders
>     were being used or if they were used at all. Are those folders still
>     relevant or is it OK to remove them from the binary?
>
>     -Jaikiran
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