module packaging JBoss EAP6 is it a fork or just repackaged?

[neilharper]

Hi,

Does JBoss simply repackage s/w into its own jars or is it a fork or divergience of a given version?

For example, I am looking at org.apache.commons.logging which is in JBoss jar jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.2-redhat-1.jar

It looks like it might be similar to v1.7.2 downloadable from the sfl4j website jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.2.jar

The redhat one looks like its built with a different version (slightly newer) of the jdk. But some of the class sizes in bytes are quite different. Maybe JBoss version code is modified from the non-redhat version?

thanks very much

[wdfink]

If you use EAP versions the code might be the same as in the community versions or include patches.

The distribution has to pass several tests build with Java... and run at different Java/OS versions.

After that exact this version (with the -redhat- names) for all libraries are released as a supported version.