[wildfly-dev] Transaction subsystem dependencies

[Michael Musgrove]

On 29/05/15 14:21, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>
>
> On 29/05/2015 15:14, Michael Musgrove wrote:
>> On 29/05/15 13:22, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm reworking the Infinispan Server package so that it is built around
>>> WildFly Core as I want to keep it as lean as possible.
>>> I need to pull in a couple of additional subsystems from WildFly proper
>>> and one of them is causing some head-scratching: the transactions
>>> subsystem. It has a bunch of hard dependencies on a ton of modules 
>>> which
>>> really sound optional. Examples:
>>>
>>> - the IIOP stuff
>>> - Narayana compensations (JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Servlet API, Weld)
>>> - HornetQ
>>
>> We need IIOP for JTS support (we use the same jars for JTA and JTS so we
>> need it regardless of whether you enable JTS) .
>>
>> We need  hornetq to leverage their fast journal (for our transaction 
>> logs).
>>
>> I agree that Naryana compensations should not be required by the
>> subsystem and this seems to be bringing in the bulk of the extra
>> dependencies. I will look into why we need to include it in the 
>> subsystem.
>>
>> Do you have more examples or do you agree that if we addressed the need
>> for compensations in the subsystem then that would be good enough.
>
> Thanks for explaining the others, but yes, if anything can be made 
> optional, I'm all for it.

You can track our progress via the forum post I just made: 
https://developer.jboss.org/message/932005#932005

Mike

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> Tristan
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