[jboss-dev] AS 5.1 Component Project Schedule

[David M. Lloyd]

On 02/04/2009 01:50 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> Project Leads,
> 
> The next planned AS release is 5.1 Beta which we are targeting for a 
> March release, and a following GA in April (provided no major problems).

Something that has come up a few times since even a while before the 5.0 
release is updating all the AS components to more effectively use jbossmc 
classloader/deployment facilities to do all kinds of wonderful things like:

- Carefully controlling what APIs are available to what types of deployments
- Only starting up services that are needed, through clever use of 
on-demand imports and that sort of thing
- Changing or improving the way profiles are built to make the distro more 
space-efficient
- etc.

It usually goes like this.  Someone brings up something peripheral to this, 
and I or one of the MC guys would say, "hey this stuff is all possible to 
do", then folks like Sacha would come in and say "this sounds great!", 
everyone would get enthused, and then everyone would just kind of stare at 
their shoes and hope that someone else would make it happen.

I know that at least a couple new projects are doing this, going forward, 
but is there any chance we could start this process for 5.1 for existing 
stuff?  Maybe start by attaching jboss-classloading.xml and so forth to the 
various libraries and/or moving them in with their related deployers, 
figuring out what it would take to get the deployers only linking the right 
APIs to the various deployment types, etc.  Just brainstorming some ideas 
would be a great start.  From there it could move to a wiki page for 
requirements and/or a JIRA task list, etc.  Is there a person who is 
actually *on* the AS team who could take point on this, for existing 
components?  Or should we officially just let the idea die for 5.x?

- DML