[JBoss-dev] Rebuildable jbossall-client.jar

We have historically had pluggable web service stacks in JBoss AS, typically for the purpose of backwards compatibility. More recently, we have also been providing updates that are pluggable on a particular version of AS. For example, right now you can update a 4.0.4 instance to use jbossws 1.0.2. I am sure that as time goes on other projects will be doing similar things. The problem with providing pluggable components in AS is that if any part of that component is contained in jbossall-client.jar, it is likely to contain conflicting or stale classes. I can envision two solutions: 1. It is the responsibility of the component provider to have some kind of install process that updates the jbossall-client.jar. 2. We provide a jboss/bin/rebuild-allclient.sh that reconstructs the jar. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, -Jason xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Jason T. Greene Senior Software Engineer JBoss division, RedHat Inc. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx