[jboss-dev-forums] [Deployers on JBoss (Deployers/JBoss)] - Re: EAR Dependency

[adrian@jboss.org]

It's certainly possible, but that doesn't mean it is a priority.

Since you can already declare your dependencies at the more granular
(and arguably more correct) level, e.g. my war depends upon that ejb in a different
deployment, I wouldn't describe it as a high priority.

For me its just an "ease of use" feature such that in simple cases
means you only have to declare one piece of configuration. 

In more complex cases, it wouldn't even work because the broad brush
configuration is likely to lead to circular dependency problems
(with dependencies going both ways between the ears).

And such a configuration (where you don't declare the true dependency)
is suspectible to breakage during refactoring, e.g. an ejb moves from one ear to
another.

The other reason it's not a high priority is because you can
already decide what order applications should be started in using
something like the prefix deployment sorter (modulo no other dependencies
causing indivdual components to wait).

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