Restore the patchdir option behavior
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Key: JBAS-1265
URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-1265
Project: JBoss Application Server
Type: Feature Request
Components: MicroContainer bus
Versions: JBossAS-4.0.1 Final, JBossAS-3.2.6 Final
Reporter: Scott M Stark
Assigned to: Scott M Stark
Its seems that the patchdir server option no longer is really of much use since
it cannot be used to patch the bootstrap components itself. There was a new
-B|-bootlib option to prepend jars to the bootclasspath added to 3.2 branch and
the 4.0.1 release that allowed one to add jars to the dist/lib directory ahead
of any bootstrap jars. This has been critiqued as:
<critique>
The problem with your patch, from my viewpoint, is that it uses
ServerLoader.addLibrary(). This forces the
javax-management-monitor-Monitor-patch.jar patch to jboss-jmx.jar to reside in
the same directory as the rest of the boot JARs. That means that I either add
my javax-management-monitor-Monitor-patch.jar patch JAR to the
${JBOSS_HOME}/lib directory, which means I'm directly fiddling with the Jboss
distribution and I want to treat that as read-only, or I move all of
${JBOSS_HOME}/lib over to someplace under my own control, which means I am
over-treating the correction. It seems that if the patch to Main uses
ServerLoader.addURL() instead, I can keep the bulk of the boot JARs in
${JBOSS_HOME}/lib and still have the Monitor patch in a directory under my
control.
</critique>
I believe the correct resolution is to restore the patchdir option to a
behavior which prepends its argument url to the bootstrap classpath using the
addURL as requested.
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