[wildfly-dev] Fwd: dzone rant on resteasy/modules

[David M. Lloyd]

Right now JBoss Modules acts purely on paths, so when you import 
something you specify what paths to filter out.  This is why I say using 
aggregate modules is a bad idea.  It makes more sense to have a 
user-friendly name for conceptual imports.  For example either I want 
resteasy (in which case I want all the imports that I need, even if I 
don't know I need them (and I won't if I'm a normal user)), or I don't 
(in which case I want nothing).   Why not categorize imports by 
subsystem and have the flag for the subsystem actually exclude the 
imports as the user expects?

On 02/07/2014 04:14 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
> I've had this conversation with Stuart before about resteasy modules.
> We didn't come to a conclusion as there's pro's and con's each way.
> BTW,  You can't exclude exports, which is the very same problem we're
> seeing with ee spec module.
>
> IMO, the problem is with JBoss Modules.  If you add an exclude for a
> module, you should expect that module to be excluded.  Even if that
> module is exported by an implicit dependency.
>
> On 2/7/2014 4:58 PM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
>> On semi related note, why does app need direct dependancy to all 10+
>> rest easy modules?
>> couldn't that be done by simply having one/two dependancies that than
>> have all the other deps exported?
>>
>> that way it would be much easier to override whole rest easy version.
>>
>> but ee spec issue still remains...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com
>> <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      Chris sent me this rant on overriding built in Resteasy.  I replied how
>>      to fix it on his blog.  The biggest problem is javaee.api which sucks in
>>      every EE API.  Is there a reason you don't trust the subsystems to suck
>>      in the EE APIs they need?
>>
>>
>>      -------- Original Message --------
>>      Subject: dzone rant on resteasy/modules
>>      Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:49:02 -0500
>>      From: Chris Bredesen <cbredesen at redhat.com
>>      <mailto:cbredesen at redhat.com>>
>>      To: Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com <mailto:bburke at redhat.com>>
>>
>>      Just saw this by accident, have fun!
>>
>>      http://java.dzone.com/articles/jboss-modules-suck-it%E2%80%99s
>>
>>      -CB
>>
>>      --
>>      Chris Bredesen
>>      Supervisor, Software Engineering
>>      Red Hat Global Support Services
>>
>>      --
>>      Bill Burke
>>      JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>>      http://bill.burkecentral.com
>>
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