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

[David M. Lloyd]

On 03/08/2012 04:53 AM, Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 08:33 AM, Bartosz Baranowski wrote:
>> I can move PEs to some lib just to kill this issue. Where should this thing end up ?
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brian Stansberry"<brian.stansberry at redhat.com>
>> To: jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7:13:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] What to do about jboss-common-core?
>>
>> On 3/7/12 9:37 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>> On 03/07/2012 08:35 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>>>> We need to decide what we want to do about usage of the
>>>> jboss-common-core library.
>>> Pulling things into AS is definitely the wrong thing to do.  I
>>> definitely agree on that score.  I think the thing to do is to start
>>> fragmenting common-core into categories until everything we use has been
>>> put into its own library, and everything we don't use can then be dropped.
>>>
> I assume you with categories you mean maven modules under a single maven
> project with a single release cycle?

No, that defeats the point really.  For the most part, common-core 
consists of a pile of completely unrelated functions.  There's no reason 
to tie their release cycle together, especially as most modules will be 
static for a long time with little or no interdependence.

> We can start of with 'jboss-common' and a legacy module 'core' which is
> deprecated by design.
>
> PEs can then go into a module 'beans'.
>
> Let it only have a dependency on JRE and nothing else for the moment.
> I think we'll find a reason to include logging stuff at some point.

Definitely not.

> http://github.com/jboss/jboss-common ?

No.

>
>> Any volunteers?
>>
>> We've talked about the need for this for a long time, but no one has
>> done it.
>>
>>>> A pull request[1] has come in that brings a bunch of jboss-common-core
>>>> classes into the AS 7 codebase.
>>>> [...]
>>> For the property editor stuff, which seems to be the bulk of this
>>> change, if it's widely used, perhaps a dedicated property editor library
>>> is called for.  Aleš, does the POJO deployment subsystem use this code?
>>>
>>
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