I think the size can be reduced a lot by reviewing & removing duplicated jars & unnecessary stuff, before we start thinking of P2
Azeez On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Sagara Gunathunga <[email protected]> wrote: > > Size of the AS distribution becoming very large with last few releases. AS > 4.1.2 is about 160 MB and AS 5.1.0 is around 200 MB my current > understanding is AS size will become around 230/240 MB in AS 5.2.0 release > with JSF, JPA and JTA support, basically once we support for J2EE-WP spec > AS end up with extra ~100 MB. > > WSO2 product/features can be installed to AS through P2 repo hence it's > not an issue here. But still it's not clear whether we could use any P2 > based solution to add Classlaoder Environments (CLE) to the basic AS > distribution. > > For AS 5.2.0 we have following CLEs addition to basic Carbon and Tomcat > CLEs. > > 1. CXF ( ~20 to ~25 MB) > 2. J2EE ( ~ 30 MB) > > > It's not possible to use P2 mechanism as it is to install CLEs because > those are not instilled to OSGi runtime instead they stay out side the OSGi > runtime. Following are the steps we need to perform to add a CLE to AS. > > 1. Modify and add an entry to the "webapp-classloading-environments.xml" > file located on "repository/conf/tomcat" directory. > > 2. Copy a directory with set of Jar files into the "lib/runtimes" > directory. > > 3. Copy some samples to the "samples" directory (Optional). > > > Above tasks can be easily done with small Ant script but it would be much > better to use P2 as it's the platform level mechanism to add new features. > Any idea how we could do this using P2 ? > > Thanks ! > > -- > Sagara Gunathunga > > Senior Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com > V.P Apache Web Services; http://ws.apache.org/ > Linkedin; http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara > Blog ; http://ssagara.blogspot.com > > -- *Afkham Azeez* Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ * <http://www.apache.org/>** email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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