[jboss-as7-dev] JSF Groovy support in AS8?

[ssilvert at redhat.com]

On 4/10/2013 12:02 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Data point: 6MB would be a 4.9% increase in download size vs EAP 
> 6.1.0.Alpha1.
>
> Does this groovy integration involve any integration code? 
A few lines just to add the module to the deployment unit.  Yes.
> I assume so 
> (to make the module visible), otherwise users would have to declare 
> module dependencies, which for many may be harder than just packaging 
> the jar.
Right.  We wouldn't ask them to do that.
>
> Do we intend to formally support this over the long run? 
I don't know.  Perhaps it would be better as an unsupported layered product?
> If not, any 
> integration will need to be ripped out at the start of productization.
>
> On 4/10/13 10:37 AM, ssilvert at redhat.com wrote:
>> On 4/10/2013 10:26 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>> Resending - this time replying to the list.
>>>
>>> Does it have to be a module that we ship? Or would it work if users
>>> added it as a simple Java EE library to their application
>>> (.war/WEB-INF/lib for example)?
>> Adding it to your WAR is something you can do today.
>>
>> I'm asking for opinions on shipping it with AS so that JSF apps have
>> this capability by default.
>>
>> I won't really argue either way.  It's trivial to add and very, very
>> trivial to leave out.
>>
>>> -Jaikiran
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 10 April 2013 05:56 PM, ssilvert at redhat.com wrote:
>>>> Mojarra has supported Groovy for quite some time now.  It's kind of neat
>>>> because you can prototype JSF artifacts with Groovy and achieve dynamic
>>>> reloading of these artifacts during development.  Here is the original
>>>> introduction to this feature from way back in 2008.
>>>> https://blogs.oracle.com/rlubke/entry/groovy_mojarra
>>>>
>>>> Today, if you want to use this feature with AS you have to download
>>>> Groovy and package it with your WAR.
>>>>
>>>> I have the code already written to add Groovy support to AS8 and it
>>>> works well.  The only downside is that it introduces a module for
>>>> groovy-all.jar, which is about 6MB.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Stan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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