我应该将我的应用程序打包到wildfly / jboss模块中吗？ （或任何等效的Java EE服务器tek）

Question

I have taken over a large EE app which was mostly deployed as wildfly/jboss modules. There are separate apps off-course, and then there are this large number of modules.

Now, I get it - the intent is to share these components between multiple apps deployed on your server. But this also tightly couples these modules and to all of these apps. Also, Wildfly/JBoss has the facility to load dependencies from other modules, and each deployment is a module. Why should I package anything into the wildfly/modules/system/layers/base directory? Why not just deploy wars and ears as wildfly/standalone/deployments and define inter-module depdencies there?

What is the best practice? What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Deploying code in my own deployments allows it to be shared between multiple other deployments and allows for hot deployment.

It is never a good idea place your code within the wildfly system modules.