[jboss-as7-dev] cant get rid of jetty maven plugin - so lets mavenize JBoss Modules

[Jess Sightler]

As a user, this looks really nice to me. I hope it gets in.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "JBoss AS7 Development" <jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 4:18:07 PM
> Subject: [jboss-as7-dev] cant get rid of jetty maven plugin - so lets	mavenize JBoss Modules
> 
> JBoss AS and jboss-as-maven-plugin just doesn't meet my needs, so
> I've
> started the process of fixing it.  I have some initial code, but I
> need
> to know that my suggestions and pull-requests will be accepted before
> I
> proceed with the rest of the changes I would need to make.
> 
> What missing or very hard to do:
> 
> * Jetty maven plugin is great because there is no pre-installation
> needed.  It builds your war, automatically downloads jetty and runs
> it
> in embedded mode, then runs your tests (if you have maven pom
> configured
> right).  I'd like to replace this with JBoss AS....But...it is just
> not
> feasible.  jboss-as-maven-plugin does download the AS7 ZIP artifact
> if
> jboss isn't running already, but...it unzips the zip into every maven
> projects target/ directory.  FOR EVERY PROJECT.  So, if you have more
> than one test, you are unzipping 100M+ PER PROJECT.  This is just
> unworkable.
> 
> * I need the above for my O'Reilly Restful Java book examples.
> Currently I use Jetty and I can't replace with jboss-as-maven-plugin.
>  I
> refuse to require download/install of jboss and will just stick to
> jetty
> if I must.
> 
> * If you are developing on a subsystem integration on AS codebase,
>  as
> you build your submodule, you need to either rebuild the
> distribution,
> or copy the library to the built JBoss distribution.  Its just a
> pain.
> I'd like to remove this step and streamline integration module
> development.
> 
> * I'd like to have automated AS integration tests in the Resteasy
> build.
>   This sucks because of the previous problems.  Not only is an unzip
>   of
> AS required per maven project, but I need to override resteasy
> speific
> AS modules with the current resteasy build.
> 
> * You can't distribute a profile of a complete jboss install without
> distributing *EVERY* jar it depends on.
> 
> What I'm doing to fix it:
> 
> * I've got a pull request for JBoss Modules that allows you to
> specific
> a maven repository artifact instead of a path for a resource-root:
> i.e.
> 
>      <resources>
>          <resource-root group="org.jboss.resteasy"
> artifact="resteasy-jaxrs" version="3.0-beta-4"/>
>          <resource-root group="org.jboss.resteasy"
> artifact="resteasy-client" version="3.0-beta-4"/>
>      </resources>
> 
> Looks in the local maven repository for the artifact, if not there,
> barfs unless you've pointed a system property to a remote maven
> repository.  Then it will download the artifact with a nice updated
> download-progress message displayed on the console window.
> 
> Here's my pull request:
> 
> https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-modules/pull/28
> 
> * I'd like to change the JBoss AS distribution to use this new
> jboss-modules maven artifact feature.  This requires modifying
> module.xml creation as well as creating and distributing a local
> maven
> repository with the jars needed.
> 
> * Besides the modified distro, I'd like a new maven artifact that is
> just a zip of the JBoss AS directory structure and the corresponding
> configuration files.  No jars.
> 
> * I want to rev jboss-as-maven-plugin to take advantage of these new
> features and distros.  Specifically:
> - Allow a src/jboss directory so that users can provide their own
> config
> files that are overlayed on top of the config-only AS distro.
> - Make config-only AS distro something you can reference as an
> artifact
> dependency
> - provide in-pom support for defining new and override modules.
> 
> I hope you can see that not only does this make development easier,
> but
> it also opens the door define JBoss AS profiles that can easily be
> exchanged and distributed.
> 
> --
> Bill Burke
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
> http://bill.burkecentral.com
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