[wildfly-dev] Wildfly 9 BOM changes

[Thomas Segismont]

Hi everyone,

While working on upgrading Hawkular to Wildfly 9 CR2, we have noticed 
that the Wildfly BOM now declares provided scope for some dependencies.

I guess the goal is to help users which forget to set the provided scope 
in their POM to end up with all the libraries in their WAR.

On the other hand, if you use some libraries in your tests, then 
dependency resolution can be broken. For example, if you add 
org.jboss.resteasy::resteasy-client in test scope, your tests fail due 
to a missing class from commons-io, because commons-io should be 
resolved as a transitive dependency of 
org.jboss.resteasy::resteasy-jaxrs, but it's now in scope provided, 
instead of test.

Have you considered this use case? Are there other motivations than 
helping Maven beginners?

Best regards,
Thomas