Re: [jbosscache-dev] Let's make 3.0 backwards compatible

Manik Surtani wrote: >> This is one of the main things I want to talk about when we have our >> AS meeting in Neuchatel the week before the Brno meeting. The AS >> needs a general solution to this problem. > > Jarjar. :-) I really think it would work. It would make upgrading > individual jars hard and may bloat the overall download size a bit, > bit it nicely isolates things such that different subsystems may be > tied to different versions of dependent libraries. Actually, > upgrading needn't be that hard - e.g., all clustering code could be > encapsulated in a single jboss-as-clustering-5.0.jar which includes > jarjar'd versions of JBC, JGroups, other deps, as well as AS > Clustering classes. Upgrading could involve a new > jboss-as-clustering-5.1.jar which may include a new release of JBC, > etc., without affecting other JBC users, whether they be end user apps > or other subsystems. > We'll discuss this in Neuchatel. This kind of thing requires buy-in from several projects, e.g. the hibernate integration is part of Hibernate; the SFSB integration is part of EJB3. Both of which are meant to work outside the AS (Hibernate for sure; EJB3 in as-yet-unrealized theory.)