[jboss-as7-dev] JBOSS_HOME/client in AS7 for client accessible jars

I've been seeing many users asking how to add the Java EE (and other client accessible) jars to their classpath while developing against AS7: http://community.jboss.org/thread/167943?tstart=0 http://community.jboss.org/thread/164255 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-8718 In previous versions, we had JBOSS_HOME/client folder where we used to ship the Java EE jars and some JBoss specific ones for end users to add them to their compile/runtime classpath. This is currently missing in AS7 and users are finding it difficult to find and refer to those jars within the "modules" of AS7. Some users have run into classpath being too long issues too, due to this. To overcome this, I have this patch https://github.com/jaikiran/jboss-as/commit/f2f01c839ba9540d2aee3d13a5e5d... which creates a <jboss-as-dist>/client folder containing (right now just) the spec API jars. The sole purpose of JBOSS_HOME/client is to make available these client accessible jars.More jars may be added later on, if it makes sense to include them there. Thoughts? If no one has any objection, can this branch https://github.com/jaikiran/jboss-as/commits/client-lib be pulled upstream please? -Jaikiran