Limit on the number of application components

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#1

Just wondering if there is a limit to the number of application components that can be used in a project?

I can see the upsides of using application components, but are there any downsides to using them? For example, increased size of the WAR file maybe?

Thanks.

#2

Hi Mike,

There is no hard limit, but many components bring additional dependencies which obviously affects the resulting size of the distribution package. For example, the Full-Text Search add-on depends on a bunch of heavy parsing libraries and increases the WAR by several tens of megabytes.

Also, add-ons may in theory interfere with each other if they extend or override underlying framework mechanisms.

So I would recommend including only add-ons that you really need, and after thorough testing them with your application.

Regards,
Konstantin

#3

Okay. Thanks!