First, thank you for such an outstanding Application Server: JBoss is truly a magnificent piece of software that is an absolute joy to work with. You guys are a shining testament to the quality of Open Source.

My feature request is to support Sun's new(ish) Pack200 compression format for WARs and EARs. I know precious little about this, other than it is built into the JRE and can pack JARs to a fraction of their original size. I'm not even sure it can be applied 'as is' to WARs and EARs, so perhaps this can be a proprietary JBoss feature?

Anyway, at 20MB+ an EAR takes a good 10-15 minutes to upload to my hosting service using my home broadband connection, so any move to help reduce EAR size would be a boon.

I understand that Pack200 JARs must first be uncompressed into JARs before they can be used, but this should be fairly natural for JBoss (which uncompresses into the tmp folder anyway, I believe).