[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: Move dependency management back into app server svn stru

[adrian@jboss.org]

This forum software is getting really buggy.
Here's my last comment in a seperate comment.

anonymous wrote : 
  | "adrian at jboss.org" wrote : 
  |   | 5) The correct way to integrate things is via interfaces NOT implementations.
  |   | 
  | If you mean public API/SPI then I completely agree with you.
  | 
  | The main problem I see is that AS trunk defines facilitating components which are used by a lot of projects (not just EJB 3) (dare I mention jboss-as-aspects ;-) ). As Andrew says, we're just the messengers.
  | 

Messengers from whom? 

Can you imagine what would happen if everybody took your approach. 
How would this mechanism scale to 10 or 20 component projects
all wanting to try to go in lock step with AS dependencies but still claim their own
independent status?

Anyway, I've given up on this argument.
If you want to integrate against implementation details then don't come crying
to me when it all breaks or you find its very difficult to do.
I've worked on that kind of software before, eventually you get to a point where
you can't change anything for fear of knocking over the whole house of cards.

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