Re: [jboss-as7-dev] cant get rid of jetty maven plugin - so lets mavenize JBoss Modules

I probably should mention my motivations... The future generation of RPMs will install the JAR files in a maven layout, so we just need to point the modules.xml to that location. No more symlinks!

Also, the ZIP will be the same as the RPM, just with a different location for the maven repo in modules.xml ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fernando Nasser" <fnasser(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Stuart Douglas" <stuart.w.douglas(a)gmail.com&gt; > Cc: jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 4:11:51 PM > Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] cant get rid of jetty maven plugin - so lets mavenize JBoss Modules > > Can I add just a bit more of fuel to this fire? > > Can we have a maven: URI so we can just give GAV (separated by ':") > and > have the maven repo location(s) in a modules.xml configuration file. > > JBoss Modules would read that for the maven: URIs and search the > maven repos > in order using the standard maven repo layout. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stuart Douglas" <stuart.w.douglas(a)gmail.com&gt; >> To: "Bill Burke" <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Cc: jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:52:18 PM >> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] cant get rid of jetty maven plugin - >> so lets mavenize JBoss Modules >> >> >> >> Bill Burke wrote: >>> >>> On 2/25/2013 8:07 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote: >>>>> * I'd like to change the JBoss AS distribution to use this new >>>>> jboss-modules maven artifact feature. This requires modifying >>>>> module.xml creation as well as creating and distributing a >>>>> local >>>>> maven >>>>> repository with the jars needed. >>>>> >>>> This is a pretty big change for our distribution model, >>>> particularly for >>>> doing things like shipping patches. Sounds interesting as an >>>> alternative >>>> form of distribution though. It might work fine as the only form >>>> of >>>> distribution, although I think we'd need to pretty thoroughly >>>> vet >>>> it >>>> before making that move. >>>> >>> >>> I agree its an idea that needs to be vetted. But here's what a >>> distro >>> would look like: >>> >>> bin/ >>> standalone/ >>> modules/ >>> jboss-maven-repository/ >>> >>> The interesting thing is that you can have a distro without the >>> repository. Patching would change to adding a new jar to the >>> maven >>> repository instead of the modules directory. >>> >>> >>> Furthermore, since the modules/ directory wouldn't have any jars >>> you >>> move it under the profile's directory: >>> >>> bin/ >>> standalone/ >>> modules/ >>> web-profile/ >>> modules/ >>> soa-profile/ >>> modules/ >>> data-profile/ >>> modules/ >>> >>> I said this in a previous email, but it doesn't make much sense >>> to >>> me >>> why build-time, run-time, and the OS all have their own special >>> way >>> of >>> distributing and managing java binaries. >>> >> >> I think that this is something that is definitely worth >> investigating. >> It is something that has been talked about before, but nothing that >> went >> past the hand wavey stage. >> >> I think it does open up some interesting possibilities for patching >> as >> well. If you zip up all the module.xml files in the AS they come to >> 300k, which means that for a 'patch' you could basically just >> distribute >> a whole new set of modules, and just have the patch tool download >> any >> jars that are missing into the local repository. This should mean >> that >> there is no need to use overlays or any sort of layering mechanism. >> >> Stuart >> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> jboss-as7-dev mailing list >> jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > jboss-as7-dev mailing list > jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev > _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev