[jboss-dev] Weird thought of the day: maven-based booting

[Aleksandar Kostadinov]

Doesn't surefire plug-in overcome the problem using a manifest file?

Ondřej Žižka wrote, On 04/09/2010 09:08 PM (EEST):
> Few weeks ago, we (QA dept) discussed your second option - to distribute
> the deps in a form of maven repository.
> Taking our mavenization trend into account, that would be beneficial
> because Maven-based testsuites could work with the *ARs from the
> distribution without needing to do mvn install:install-file for each
> artifact needed in the process.
> 
> The problem could be the limited length of classpath on some systems.
> 
> Ondra
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Burke píše v Čt 01. 04. 2010 v 17:19 -0400:
>> instead of the way our JBoss AS distribution is structure now, why not 
>> introduce the idea of maven-based booting and deployment?
>>
>> Core components (specifically deployers, sars, really anything in the 
>> JBoss domain) of a profile (default, minimal, all, etc.) would only 
>> include bean.xml and other configuration files.  Within beans.xml or a 
>> different file, each deployment unit would specify its dependencies, 
>> either through <dependency> elements, or a list of maven artifacts, i.e.
>>
>> org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxrs:2.0
>>
>> That way our distribution can be either very very tiny, just a zip of 
>> text files that point to our maven repository.  Or, very optimized, we 
>> ship a maven repository with the distribution that shared between the 
>> different profiles.
>>
>> This could get very interesting over time.  Deployment units could 
>> delegate to the base AS for versioning, much like maven modules delegate 
>> to a parent pom for dependency versions.  We could automatically create 
>> scoped deployments or issue warnings if base AS and the deployment unit 
>> require different library versions, etc.
>>
>> Just a thought...
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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