[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-1160) Adding config files to AS7 is inconvenient.

[James Livingston (JIRA)]

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James Livingston commented on WFLY-1160:
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To have "common libraries" directory would require deciding what modules were visible to it, since unlike earlier versions where there was a main classloader for the server, there is not any more.

Regardless of the choice of dependencies, I suspect many people would want to be able to configure it. At that point, it doesn't seem to me that it would be any different from a normal module added to the EE subsystem global modules, apart from the "include all jars in the directory" part, which could be done if MODULES-99 was implemented.

> Adding config files to AS7 is inconvenient.
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>
>                 Key: WFLY-1160
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-1160
>             Project: WildFly
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Class Loading
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Paul Hinds
>            Assignee: David Lloyd
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: regression
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> This page https://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToPutAnExternalFileInTheClasspath details how to put a directory on the AS7 classpath which is inconvenient and could easily be done by default.
> If AS7 out of the box came with /standalone/classes or /standalone/conf (conf would introduce a bit of backwards compatability) and perhaps /standalone/lib/*.jar added to the classpath it would be as good as previous JBoss versions.
> This could be implemented as a module as in the above documents and automatically added to classpaths if the dirs exists in the same way other modules are automatically added to the CP if certain criteria are met.
> Ideally is should be possible to make these symlinks on win7 and nix. Since it is natural to put config in /etc per Linux file system standards.



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