Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Deployment Chain/Service interaction
>> Yeah maybe, though EAR specifies some extra stuff that we
won't have,
>> i.e. a big flat classloader.
>
> Couldn't you make ear + its jars just one classloader
> with multiple roots (multiple local loaders), if this would simplify things.
> Or how do we do it atm?
Yeah that's how we're doing it; this was in the context of discussing
whether we'd treat all top-level JavaEE JARs (WARs, EJB JARs etc.) as a
kind of "virtual" EAR. Having all top-level deployments on a flat
classpath is obviously counter to our goals.
Ah, the good ol' "big-ball-o-mud" days. :-)
Yeah, that would make the hard modularization work go to waste.
But during AS5/6 + EJB3 + CDI integration I've seen some ugly things :-)
(whole scan of existing deployments (DUs) and looking for matching EJBs)
which I think are gonna be pita to support -- if we actually want (or need?) to support
them ...