[jboss-as7-dev] jax-rs deployments have incomplete module imports

[Bill Burke]

On 9/12/2012 6:43 PM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>> If we changed the JaxrsDependencyProcessor to import Apache HC 4.1.
>> How would the user upgrade to Apache HC 4.2?  Do they not have to
>> create a new module for 4.2 and import it within their
>> jboss-deployment-structure.xml?  Why not have them do one more step
>> and work with the aggregate module instead?  They can always version
>> the aggregate module too, right?  If they get used to working with an
>> aggregate module, isn't it a lot easier for them to support multiple
>> different versions of Resteasy for different applications?
>
> The user should be able to exclude the Apache HC 4.1 (and any Resteasy
> modules that depend on it) in jboss-deployment-structure.xml and then
> bundle 4.2 and any other Resteasy modules directly in their application.
> This way they do not have to actually modify the app server.
>

Jason also said "I just realized they could class filter the import 
though which would solve it. They can also take advantage of ordering." 
  Is that as good of a solution?  Then we have both a mechanism to 
define JAX-RS imports for the entire app server (instead of it being 
hardcoded) and a way to override a specific thing.

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Bill Burke
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