[idea] Application .info directory

[Dain Sundstrom]

I think I'm finally over my Titan Quest: Immortal Throne bender, and  
was thinking about a problem David mentioned to me the other day...

When we deploy an application we create a meta-data complete ejb- 
jar.xml file amongst other artifacts in memory.  This data is very  
useful for debugging applications but takes up a lot of memory (and  
is generally just a pain to track).  My idea at the time was to just  
dump the file to the temp directory and keep around a pointer to the  
location, but that is problematic because systems normally have  
scripts that clean the temp dir and to be friendly, you want to  
delete the file on shutdown.  So here is my improved idea:

For each application we deploy we create a .info directory beside  
it.  For example, if we deploy foo.ear, we create a foo.ear.info (or  
foo.info) directory.  This directory would contain the meta-data  
complete ejb-jar.xml file in addition to the cmp to jpa mappings file  
and any other information we think might be helpful to debug/admin  
the application.

WDYT?

-dain