I'm currently putting together a distribution package for something that uses JBoss/Remoting.
I have it *almost* to the point where I can ship a .sar for "default" configuration and another .sar for "minimal" configuration (in case you want to deploy in either/or). The problem I have is this backward-incompatibility with jboss-common.jar. There is one class (actually, just a method) that JBoss/Remoting needs that is not in any currently released JBossAS (method in PropertyEditors). What I currently have now is an ant script that deploys the .sar in the appropriate /deploy directory but it also replaces that class in the JBossAS /lib directory's jboss-common.jar. Obviously, this makes distribution slightly more complicated than just shipping a sar and saying "put this in your /deploy directory". Due to this, I wanted to be able to ship a .zip file that I can say, "unzip this in your JBossAS home directory and jboss-common.jar will be overlayed in the proper /lib directory and the .sar will be placed in the proper server/default/deploy directory. However, it turns out that the jboss-common.jar that ships with JBoss/Remoting is not compatible with currently shipping JBossAS distros (I have 4.0.1.SP1 that I'm trying this on). So, I really do have to just upgrade this one class in jboss-common.jar and leave everything else that comes with SP1's jboss-common.jar alone. Any other ideas to make a distribution easy and work around this problem? As a more generic point here - this "patch a class" feature is clearly something we need to consider when we build out JBoss Network - which falls on me and my group :-) Of course, I'm hoping JBoss 5 will help by providing nice patching capabilities down to the class level. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3869819#3869819 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3869819 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
