[jbossdeveloper] [Proposal] One BOM for Wildfly/EAP 7

[Ondrej Zizka]

+1. From user's PoV it's a good step. I was being asked few times on 
demos which one should choose and whether "all" makes the app bigger 
etc. Too confusing.

Ondra



On 9.4.2015 17:46, Paul Gier wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'd like to propose that we consolidate our current JBoss EAP BOMs into
> a single BOM.  We currently have several smallish BOMs with names like
> "jboss-javaee-6.0-with-hibernate" and "jboss-javaee-6.0-with-security".
>   Instead I think we could make a single BOM which contains all public
> API jar versions and is used throughout the quickstarts whenever an API
> is needed.
>
> The specs project would continue to provide a JavaEE specs BOM for
> simple use cases.  And the eap BOM project would provide the JavaEE APIs
> and public EAP specific APIs.  Note that using this BOM in a quickstart
> would not cause the quickstart to download "all" the API jars, the BOM
> only manages the versions of the jars which have already been added to
> the dependency tree.
>
> The advantage of this is easier maintenance and a simpler configuration
> for users who currently use more than one of our current BOMs in their
> application.
>
> WDYT?
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