[jboss-as7-dev] What to do about jboss-common-core?

We need to decide what we want to do about usage of the jboss-common-core library. A pull request[1] has come in that brings a bunch of jboss-common-core classes into the AS 7 codebase. I know in the past we've discouraged use of jboss-common-core for various reasons, the biggest AIUI being: 1) It's a dumping ground that brings in a lot of unnecessary classes. 2) Some of the stuff in there may not be well suited to AS 7 but is well suited to earlier, supported releases. So to use it in both basically means a semi-fork (i.e. branch it.) Forks increase maintenance burdens. But pulling a bunch of classes out of it and into the AS itself is just going to turn some module of the AS into a dumping ground. And it's essentially a fork, but one where the forked code is in completely separate code bases. I'd rather have people use jboss-common-core than do that. [1] https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/1739 -- Brian Stansberry Principal Software Engineer JBoss by Red Hat