[jboss-as7-dev] What to do about jboss-common-core?

[Brian Stansberry]

We need to decide what we want to do about usage of the 
jboss-common-core library.

A pull request[1] has come in that brings a bunch of jboss-common-core 
classes into the AS 7 codebase.

I know in the past we've discouraged use of jboss-common-core for 
various reasons, the biggest AIUI being:

1) It's a dumping ground that brings in a lot of unnecessary classes.
2) Some of the stuff in there may not be well suited to AS 7 but is well 
suited to earlier, supported releases. So to use it in both basically 
means a semi-fork (i.e. branch it.) Forks increase maintenance burdens.

But pulling a bunch of classes out of it and into the AS itself is just 
going to turn some module of the AS into a dumping ground. And it's 
essentially a fork, but one where the forked code is in completely 
separate code bases. I'd rather have people use jboss-common-core than 
do that.


[1] https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/1739



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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat