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

[Carlo de Wolf]

We need to distinguish between application developer API and client API.
And within client: module aware and plain.

Carlo

On 06/14/2011 10:26 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> 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
>
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