[jboss-as7-dev] JBOSS_HOME/client in AS7 for client accessible jars

[Jaikiran Pai]

I've been seeing many users asking how to add the Java EE (and other 
client accessible) jars to their classpath while developing against AS7:

http://community.jboss.org/thread/167943?tstart=0
http://community.jboss.org/thread/164255
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-8718

In previous versions, we had JBOSS_HOME/client folder where we used to 
ship the Java EE jars and some JBoss specific ones for end users to add 
them to their compile/runtime classpath. This is currently missing in 
AS7 and users are finding it difficult to find and refer to those jars 
within the "modules" of AS7. Some users have run into classpath being 
too long issues too, due to this.

To overcome this, I have this patch 
https://github.com/jaikiran/jboss-as/commit/f2f01c839ba9540d2aee3d13a5e5d069070989b5 
which creates a <jboss-as-dist>/client folder containing (right now 
just) the spec API jars. The sole purpose of JBOSS_HOME/client is to 
make available these client accessible jars.More jars may be added later 
on, if it makes sense to include them there.

Thoughts? If no one has any objection, can this branch 
https://github.com/jaikiran/jboss-as/commits/client-lib be pulled 
upstream please?

-Jaikiran