How would you create a custom classloader in AS7?

[jkreska]

I am trying to develop a custom classloader that all the ears in my AS7 install will load jars over the network. 

What mechanisim would be best for this?  I started with a module but I am not sure it will do the trick because the classpath is dynamic, based on the content of each directory the classloader scans.

[alesj]

I am trying to develop a custom classloader that all the ears in my AS7 install will share to load jars over the network. 

What mechanisim would be best for this?  I started with a module but I am not sure it will do the trick because the classpath is dynamic, based on the content of each directory the classloader scans.

Perhaps this my experiment will give you some ideas:

* http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/MyJBossAS7Experiments (see "Pull my finger")

[jkreska]

I think I can make this work if ModuleXmlParser.parseResourcePaths was defined in 7.0 Final.

Do you know how I can get the resource paths from the ModuleXml?

[jkreska]

Based on the remote module loader idea I think I will simply rsync the modules from a central repository to each of the nodes.