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

[Fernando Nasser]

Can we leave the integration code in and require the user to include the JAR if they want to use it?

--Fernando


> 
> I say that we should leave it out.
> 
> Unless the user wants the exact version of Groovy that we are
> shipping
> it may not actually be helpful anyway.
> 
> There are lots of things that we could ship that 'could be useful to
> some users' (e.g. Spring, pretty much every java web framework),
> however
> unless there is a compelling reason to include them I think we should
> just let the user package the exact version they want in their jars.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 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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