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

Actually i wrote a deployer a while back using maven embedder to include maven artifacts from a pom.xml in the deployment classpath - trying to demonstrate Max how easy it is to extend AS. I'm not sure what to do with this though :) On 04/01/2010 11:27 PM, Chris Bredesen wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ jboss-development mailing list jboss-development(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-development