It would be good to get user 's view on this as well. I am re-posting to tuscany-user list since I am not sure if everyone monitors both lists.
On 8/11/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our SCA binary distribution is over 100Meg now and there's still > extensions > and dependencies I've not added yet. This seems a little big considering > we're trying to sell Tuscany as all svelte and light weight. > > So what to do? The reason its so big is that every webapp sample and demo > we > have ends up including a copy of most of the runtime and dependencies. One > solution could be to just ship fewer prebuilt webapp samples and demos. > Another could be to change the way we do those samples so that each > sample/demo is just a simple SCA contribution jar and you have to deploy > that to some Tuscany runtime. We've already the webapp runtime that would > work for that, and the Geronimo Tuscany support, and we could create > another standalone runtime if you don't want to use Tomcat or Geronimo. > > What do people think, does the size matter, are there some other things we > could do? > > ...ant >