[jboss-as7-dev] jax-rs deployments have incomplete module imports

I'm sending this here before I submit a JIRA. JAX-RS deployments need to import more dependencies, specifically: * the jackson libraries * Apache Http Client 4 libraries Jackson and HC4 are often used within jax-rs deployments because users need to add additional configuration and initialization that can only be done programmatically. Another thing: Can modules be declared with empty <resources>? It would be cool if we could have a resteasy module with which all it did was define what modules it would export to a deployment. Right now this metadata is hardcoded, correct? This sucks for multiple reasons. One: users will have to manually define a lot of module dependencies, or they will end up including resteasy and thirdparty libraries that may conflict and cause CCEs. Two: Its very hard for me to provide a patch to AS7 if I want to provide *ALL* features that come with the resteasy distribution. Sure I could include and export everything within the current resteasy default module, but I would rather have separate modules for these features. Another alternative could be to only distribute and export the core resteasy modules with AS7. Then, users would just include other resteasy features/components/jars directly within their deployments. -- Bill Burke JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://bill.burkecentral.com