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.