Re: [jBoss-Dev] The Dumbo problem (Big EARs)

[Toby Allsopp]

Rickard �berg wrote:

> marc fleury wrote:
>> 
>> what above "reasoning"... the fact that I don't put in XML the
>> dependencies?...
> 
> Yes. The classloader tree needs to be explicit as it cannot be inferred
> from any other info in the applications.

Is this really true? Would it not be possible to figure out what classes 
need to be shared from ejb-refs and then pull all of those out of the 
individual EARs (so that they're not picked up by the leaf classloaders) 
and put them in the logical application's parent classloader?

Just a thought.

Toby.