I have been wondering, with all the continuous integration which is quite popular nowadays, it is a waste of space to build 40-50 MB ear files where most of it are external dependencies. Is it such a bad idea to have a separate configuration for your project in
jboss (other than minimal, default and all) and maintain the external dependencies in the lib folder of this custom configuration folder instead of inside the war/ear file. What are the cons in such an approach. With
maven we can make sure that the correct versions of the jars are always synced with the jboss lib folder on each build. Any thoughts?
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