[jboss-dev] new shared JBOSS_HOME/server/lib directory

[Stan Silvert]

Why not use the Maven repo?  Then the initial download becomes really 
small and dependencies are just loaded from the local repository.

Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> JBOSS_HOME/lib is our bootstrap directory so we wouldn't add shared 
> libs there. And any new directory we introduce will break scripts anyway.
>
> The only point of discussion is whether to put all libs in server/lib 
> and reference them explicitly, or put only the shared ones and 
> reference them implicitly.
>
> The down side for referencing explicitly the chosen libs is that it is 
> harder to maintain, since whenever a lib is added you'd have to update 
> all affected configurations.
>
> The up side is that you have a single lib dir for server libs.
>
> Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote:
>> I'm not the best one to give opinion on that but here it is.
>>
>> The change will complicate things and confuse users. As well doesn't 
>> seem scalable to me. When we have more server configurations, we'll 
>> need more lib directories (platforms more affected)... The change 
>> could break user utilities that expect the old layout, etc.
>>
>> IMHO a straightforward approach will be to remove the 
>> JBOSS_HOME/server/*/lib directories altogether and have all libraries 
>> in JBOSS_HOME/lib or another directory. Then appropriate libraries 
>> for every server configuration be selected in a configuration file 
>> (conf/jboss-service.xml?).
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Aleksandar
>>
>> Dimitris Andreadis wrote, On 11/04/2008 12:38 PM (EEST):
>>> The new JBOSS_HOME/server/lib directory pointed to at by the 
>>> jboss.shared.lib.url property currently contains the libraries 
>>> shared by the default and all configurations.
>>>
>>> So server/default/lib is now empty and server/all/lib contains only:
>>>
>>> avalon-framework.jar
>>> hibernate-jbosscache2.jar
>>> jacorb.jar
>>> jbosscache-core.jar
>>> jbosscache-pojo.jar
>>> jgroups.jar
>>>
>>> The new directory is added to the classpath in conf/jboss-service.xml:
>>>
>>>    <classpath codebase="${jboss.server.lib.url}" archives="*"/>
>>>    <classpath codebase="${jboss.shared.lib.url}" archives="*"/>
>>>
>>> The minimal config remains unchanged.
>>>
>>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6158
>>>
>>> You probably need to cleanup your build/output/** directory to pick 
>>> up the change at your next svn update.
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