In looking at extending the JBossEmbeddedAS work Andrew started to allow for better integration with a profile service, the memory usage and speed of trying to use a jbossas structure from within a large monolithic jar is poor. The jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar which combines most of the jbossas dependencies is ~40Mb.

This little test which is the start of identifying the embedded server locations is taking way too much memory and time:

 public void testBootstrapLib()
 throws Exception
 {
 long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
 URL jarUrl = JBossEmbeddedAS.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation();
 System.out.println("JBossEmbeddedAS CodeSource: "+jarUrl);
 long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
 System.out.println("Elapsed to determine CodeSource: "+(now = start));
 // Construct VFS representation
 VirtualFile jarVirtualFile = VFS.getRoot(jarUrl);
 VirtualFile jbossHome = jarVirtualFile.getChild("embedded");
 if(jbossHome == null)
 throw new IllegalStateException("Failed to locate child 'embedded' in: "+jarUrl);
 URL homeURL = jbossHome.toURL();

 System.out.println("JBOSS_HOME: "+jbossHome);
 now = System.currentTimeMillis();
 System.out.println("Elapsed to locate child 'embedded' : "+(now - start));

 URL libraryURL = new URL(homeURL, ServerConfig.LIBRARY_URL_SUFFIX);
 now = System.currentTimeMillis();
 VirtualFile libraryDir = VFS.getRoot(libraryURL);
 System.out.println("LIBRARY_URL: "+libraryDir);
 List<VirtualFile> jars = libraryDir.getChildren();
 if(jars != null)
 {
 for(VirtualFile jar : jars)
 {
 URL url = jar.toURL();
 System.out.println(jar);
 }
 }
 now = System.currentTimeMillis();
 System.out.println("Elapsed to locate/list boot lib: "+(now - start));
 }

The output shows its taking 5+ secs just to get to the point of loading listing the contents of the JBOSS_HOME/lib directory, and this also requires increasing the test memory to 128m:

JBossEmbeddedAS CodeSource: file:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar
Elapsed to determine CodeSource: 1
JBOSS_HOME: ZipEntryHandler@12724795[path=embedded context=file:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar real=file:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar/embedded]
Elapsed to locate child 'embedded' : 759
LIBRARY_URL: ZipEntryHandler@14031599[path= context=vfszip:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar/embedded/lib/ real=vfszip:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar/embedded/lib/]
ZipEntryHandler@3232789[path=empty context=vfszip:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar/embedded/lib/ real=vfszip:/Users/svn/repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-assembly/0.1.0-SNAPSHOT/jboss-embedded-assembly-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-embedded.jar/embedded/lib/empty]
Elapsed to locate/list boot lib: 5675

We need to be under a sec and 64Mb to fully boot the embedded server. I'm looking at what is happening. It looks like vfs 2.0.0.CR5 is being pulled in by the current snapshot dependencies.