jboss-modules usage

[alesj]

Looking at the AS7 code, I guess this "org.jboss.as.deployment.module" is where I see how to use jboss-modules?
Or is there some other code that deals with it as well?

Any docs, wiki, guide, faq, etc I happened to miss?

[dmlloyd]

JBoss Modules is itself a much better example.  If you're just looking to use it (from an end-user perspective), then the AS7 module repository is a good example of laying out how modules are assembled.

If you want to define your own module loader, look at the LocalModuleLoader and other implementations (though beware that the ModuleLoader API might change a little before things are final).  Also, he Modules test cases have some good examples of building up a ModuleLoader programmatically.

[jason.greene]

I published the latest javadoc here:

http://jbossas.github.com/jboss-modules/

Note the javadoc needs some examples inline. We need to do this before it is released in final state:

https://jira.jboss.org/browse/MODULES-39

We should also add a user guide to the wiki.

[jason.greene]

Note the official per release docs are here:

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossmodules/1.0.0.Beta6/api/

I use the github thing to push the *latest* master fairly frequently

[alesj]

Any reason why (Jar)FileResourceLoader is package private?

As I would need to create an instance of it, but don't wanna duplicate the logic.

[alesj]

I would also need this filtering to be more flexible -- additional "system" packages ;-):

private Class<?> performLoadClass(String className, boolean exportsOnly, final boolean resolve) throws ClassNotFoundException {

        if (className == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("name is null");
        }
        if (className.startsWith("java.") || className.startsWith("sun.reflect.")) {
            // always delegate to system
            return findSystemClass(className);
        }

[alesj]

I would also need this filtering to be more flexible -- additional "system" packages ;-):

private Class<?> performLoadClass(String className, boolean exportsOnly, final boolean resolve) throws ClassNotFoundException {

        if (className == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("name is null");
        }
        if (className.startsWith("java.") || className.startsWith("sun.reflect.")) {
            // always delegate to system
            return findSystemClass(className);
        }

I'll try to get past this by fallback loader.

[alesj]

I'll try to get past this by fallback loader.

Actually adding system module as dependency + properly filtering it is better.