[jboss-as7-dev] Creating a Web Common Module

Hi Guys, Now that AS8 is starting I would like to move some classes out of the web module, and into a web-common module, to allow subsystems to integration with the web container without a direct dependency on the web subsystem, the eventual goal being to support multiple web servers. The changes I am proposing are in my web-common brach, and they are not 100% complete yet (In particular they do not address web services or OSGI yet, as these rely on internal JBoss Web classes): https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/jboss-as/compare/web-common The main problem that I can see with this approach is that it moves the WarMetaData class, which 3rd party extensions may be relying on. Given that AS8 is a planned major release and will probably contain quite a lot of breaking changes from an extension point of view, I don't think this is a huge problem. Thoughts? Stuart