[jboss-as7-dev] Cleaning up JBoss Metadata

[Stuart Douglas]

Hi Guys,

Now that we have started on AS8 I would like to clean up JBoss Metadata, 
and get rid of some of the legacy stuff that has accumulated over the years.

Basically I would like to branch 7.x for AS7 bug fixes, and start on 
version 8.0 in master.

The changes I want to make are basically:

- Run a code formatter over the whole code base, and setup checkstyle rules
- Delete all the dead code, that is no longer relevant
- Flatten some of the inheritance hierarchies that are a relic from the 
JAXB parsing days
- Fix or delete the ignored tests

Nothing major, but I just think that it will make the code more
maintainable going forward.

I have made a start here:

https://github.com/stuartwdouglas/metadata/compare/master

Can anyone see any problems with this approach?

If not, I will go ahead with this.

Stuart