[wildfly-dev] smaller footprints

On Resteasy list I have a few people "rolling their own app server" using Netty, Weld, Resteasy and JPA. I asked one of them "I don't understand why you are rolling your own app server" response: "It's actually a lot more lightweight. The minimum I can run the equivalent on AS7 on is ~ 180 mb in binaries, but throwing this together is about 32 mb (and compresses further when its packaged). I'm able to start the JVM on the bare minimum (~100mb on my linux VM) but AS7 with all I need is about 756mb. When rolling out in the cloud, where all of my REST APIs are stateless, running with this configuration helps us get a lot more per node." I'm not complaining :), just something to think about. It might be really valuable to focus a bit in Wildfly 9 to make it easier to create custom profiles or even different packaging options for the app server instead of the exploded style we currently have. -- Bill Burke JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://bill.burkecentral.com