Doesn't surefire plug-in overcome the problem using a manifest file? Ondřej Žižka wrote, On 04/09/2010 09:08 PM (EEST): > Few weeks ago, we (QA dept) discussed your second option - to distribute > the deps in a form of maven repository. > Taking our mavenization trend into account, that would be beneficial > because Maven-based testsuites could work with the *ARs from the > distribution without needing to do mvn install:install-file for each > artifact needed in the process. > > The problem could be the limited length of classpath on some systems. > > Ondra > > > > Bill Burke píše v Čt 01. 04. 2010 v 17:19 -0400: >> 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@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-development _______________________________________________ jboss-development mailing list jboss-development@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-development