[wildfly-dev] SDDS (Silly Deployment Detector Subsystem)

[Alessio Soldano]

Just FYI, the webservices subsystem has something related to this topic,
see https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-451 . Basically deployments
containing WS endpoints are scanned by the webservices susbsystem to
detect Apache CXF libraries (which should not be included in the
deployment, being them already available on the server). If they're
found, a verbose/explanatory warning is printed and the deployment aborted.
User will either fix the deployment or disable the webservices subsystem
for it.

Alessio

On 05/22/2013 09:22 AM, Nicklas Karlsson wrote:
> (I know there has been some discussion on the topic (old community
> AS7-dev postings, IRC-chat with Tomaz Cerar etc)
> 
>      Hanging around the forums, I've noticed that a frequent source of
> hard-to-debug deployment problems and other non-linear-behavior is that
> people often try to deploy archives with conflicting dependencies
> (various EE APIs/impls already on the AS, JDBC drivers, maven plugins,
> you name it). 
> 
>     Would it be worthwhile to implement a deployment processor (disabled
> by default) that would act as a helpful bouncer for the deployment
> archive? We could have a simple isSane(Archive) interface or something
> and people could write their own implementations (that would be picked
> up through the java services system or listed explicitly in some
> module?). Default implementation that come to mind is
> 
> * Blacklisted packages (using Tattletale to warn users if they are
> bundling e.g. EE impls/APIs)
> * Version limiter (using Tattletale to warn if deployment contains too
> old version of lib, e.g. Spring)
> * Unused libs (using Tattletale to warn if deployment contains unused jars)
> * Server provided libs (using Tattletale and JBoss Modules) to show
> which dependencies could be handled by a server module dependency)
> 
> I'm not sure JBoss Modules contains any "directory" for
> which-modules-provides functionality but I guess the module root could
> be scanned and the resources indexed or something. Performance would not
> be an issue because it's still going to be faster that a user playing
> around with dependencies for days.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
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Alessio Soldano
Web Service Lead, JBoss