Re: [jboss-dev] new shared JBOSS_HOME/server/lib directory

Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > So you're saying the approach I suggest is *fundamentally* flawed? See > below why I don't agree. I just opt for a better temporary solution so > we don't have to deal with the current for a long time. If too hard > then I'm ok with that. > > Let me summarize what I don't like in current server/lib approach and > I hope that to be my last mail. > 1. repurposing servers directory (I think better would be > JBOSS_HOME/shared or something) That was Dimitris original proposal as well, so it seem like what most agree on. > 2. will possibly be hardly reusable for additional server > configurations (imagine if we want one less lib in the configuration) > + leads again to duplication of libs in the distribution (although > much less). The server config can choose to not include a jar from the shared lib directory. We have not really talked about how the shared/lib contents are included in what traditionally was a server/xxx/lib/* wildcard inclusion of everything. A classpath element that allows for wildard inclusion as well as exclusion would allow a server config to use any set of shared jars. > > 3. one can't easily change a bundled library only in one configuration > for some test purposes (imagine security update testing) > Also addressed by a more flexible classpath notion.