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

Dimitris Andreadis wrote: Both bring to mind the Tomcat 5.5 and earlier $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib and $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib. Probably will have the same association for others, so I recommend we consider the meaning of those and try to be consistent. Those directories each serves as a resource location for a classloader, described as follows [1]: Common - This class loader contains additional classes that are made visible to both Tomcat internal classes and to all web applications. Normally, application classes should NOT be placed here. Shared - This class loader is the place to put classes and resources that you wish to share across ALL web applications (unless Tomcat internal classes also need access, in which case you should put them in the Common class loader instead). Neither of those descriptions exactly matches the JBoss directory, since "application classes should NOT be placed " in $JBOSS_HOME/common/lib isn't technically true. But still, I think "common" better matches what we are trying to do, since jars placed in it are most definitely meant to be visible to internal JBoss classes. Note that in Tomcat 6, common/lib and shared/lib are gone, with common/lib functionally replaced by a plain lib/ [2] [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html [2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html -- Brian Stansberry Lead, AS Clustering JBoss, a division of Red Hat brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com