[wildfly-dev] Transaction subsystem dependencies

[Tristan Tarrant]

On 29/05/2015 15:14, Michael Musgrove wrote:
> On 29/05/15 13:22, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm reworking the Infinispan Server package so that it is built around
>> WildFly Core as I want to keep it as lean as possible.
>> I need to pull in a couple of additional subsystems from WildFly proper
>> and one of them is causing some head-scratching: the transactions
>> subsystem. It has a bunch of hard dependencies on a ton of modules which
>> really sound optional. Examples:
>>
>> - the IIOP stuff
>> - Narayana compensations (JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Servlet API, Weld)
>> - HornetQ
>
> We need IIOP for JTS support (we use the same jars for JTA and JTS so we
> need it regardless of whether you enable JTS) .
>
> We need  hornetq to leverage their fast journal (for our transaction logs).
>
> I agree that Naryana compensations should not be required by the
> subsystem and this seems to be bringing in the bulk of the extra
> dependencies. I will look into why we need to include it in the subsystem.
>
> Do you have more examples or do you agree that if we addressed the need
> for compensations in the subsystem then that would be good enough.

Thanks for explaining the others, but yes, if anything can be made 
optional, I'm all for it.

Tristan

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Tristan Tarrant
Infinispan Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat