[jboss-as7-dev] NPE in POST_MODULE processors

[Jason Greene]

On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Stuart Douglas <stuart.w.douglas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18/08/2012, at 2:22 PM, Thomas Diesler <thomas.diesler at jboss.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just to clarify, for non-osgi deployments on server restart we process them in parallel. For a large set, deploymentA could race many phases ahead of deploymentB with no particular order in which these deployments are processed, right?
> 
> Yes, unless there are inter-module class loading dependencies, in which case a deployment will wait for the deployment it depends on to finish MODULIZE. 
> 

Note that the intention is that we have fine grained dependencies between components, which allows the greatest level of parallelism. This will always be our preferred model. We do plan, as Stuart notes, to add coarse grained deployment level deps as a workaround for legacy deployments.

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Jason T. Greene
JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat