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

[David Lloyd (JIRA)]

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David Lloyd commented on WFLY-1160:
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One easy and clean way we could support managing dependencies for global libraries would be to simply support Dependency: and Class-Path: just like we do for other filesystem JARs.

> 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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