[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Eclipse IDE (dev)] - Re: Standardization on runtime dependencies in JBossIDE

[<koe...@jb...>]

The obvious case where you want to develop against api and not against impl's is for all of the jee standard stuff... You don't need all of the JBoss runtime classes in the classpath of your project in order to develop a jee app. 
Also, if you develop a pure jee app using the api jars, it should be fairly easy to port them between JBoss 4.0.x versions. This is (at this point) not possible easily with e.g. jBPM in the first part because of the non-existence of a jBPM-api.jar. 

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