Re: [jboss-dev] Weird thought of the day: maven-based booting

It's not booting, but doens't Resin already have the ability to deploy a pom.xml? Can't recall where I heard this but it definitely turns conventional wisdom on its head. -CB On Thursday 01 April 2010 05:19:42 pm Bill Burke wrote: > instead of the way our JBoss AS distribution is structure now, why not > introduce the idea of maven-based booting and deployment? > > Core components (specifically deployers, sars, really anything in the > JBoss domain) of a profile (default, minimal, all, etc.) would only > include bean.xml and other configuration files. Within beans.xml or a > different file, each deployment unit would specify its dependencies, > either through<dependency> elements, or a list of maven artifacts, i.e. > > org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxrs:2.0 > > That way our distribution can be either very very tiny, just a zip of > text files that point to our maven repository. Or, very optimized, we > ship a maven repository with the distribution that shared between the > different profiles. > > This could get very interesting over time. Deployment units could > delegate to the base AS for versioning, much like maven modules delegate > to a parent pom for dependency versions. We could automatically create > scoped deployments or issue warnings if base AS and the deployment unit > require different library versions, etc. > > Just a thought... > > Bill _______________________________________________ jboss-development mailing list jboss-development(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-development