[jboss-as7-dev] Revisit server dependency on embedded

[Thomas Diesler]

Folks,

while working on a minimal modular server I noticed a questionable 
dependency from server to embedded. Server only uses types from embedded 
in EmbeddedStandAloneServerFactory, which should live in embedded. Other 
than that there are no embedded usages in server. Embedded uses 
convoluted refection code to access types in server because it does not 
have a dependency on it. IMHO, the dependency direction should be the 
other way around and EmbeddedStandAloneServerFactory should move to 
embedded.

Reversing the order of dependency reduces the transitive graph of binary 
dependencies for a minimal server from 739 to 188 and the download size 
by 78% to 18MB

The pull request is: #3425 <https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/3425>

cheers
--thomas

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