Ok, so after this discussion the shared library directory has moved to
JBOSS_HOME/common/lib.
2 new properties were introduced:
- jboss.common.base.url defaulting to ${jboss.home.url}/common
- jboss.common.lib.url defaulting to ${jboss.common.base.url}/lib
(In case we want to introduce other common stuff, configuration or otherwise)
The jboss.shared.lib.url references were removed.
Cheers
/Dimitris
PS
Andrew, maybe you want to re-synch the forked bootstrap project.
Brian Stansberry wrote:
Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> Any preferences between
>
> JBOSS_HOME/common/lib
> vs
> JBOSS_HOME/shared/lib?
>
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