Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Gary Weaver
Sorry to open up with venting, but I truly cannot believe how big of a mess that I found of Tomcat's and others' jars under /usr/share/java in a CentOS 5.2 distribution I examined this morning. For years I've been using tar.gz'd Tomcat that I downloaded and applications I used that had

Re: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Gary Weaver gary.wea...@duke.edu wrote: Sorry to open up with venting, but I truly cannot believe how big of a mess that I found of Tomcat's and others' jars under /usr/share/java in a CentOS 5.2 distribution I examined this morning. Uh, shouldn't you be

Re: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Ken Bowen
Probably the most common question asked on this list is: Are you using one of those @#$%$#$ Tomcats from a third party distribution? The follow-up is always: You'll have to get help from the people creating that distribution. BTW: On my own CentOS box, I simply ignore the

RE: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Gary Weaver [mailto:gary.wea...@duke.edu] Subject: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and otherjars in RPM distributions For years I've been using tar.gz'd Tomcat that I downloaded and applications I used that had standalone installs would provide similar looking

RE: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Martin Gainty
MGGood Afternoon Gary MG(hopefully brief) comment annotations displayed below Martin __ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene Empfaenger sein, so

Re: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary, On 5/22/2009 3:01 PM, Gary Weaver wrote: Sorry to open up with venting, but I truly cannot believe how big of a mess that I found of Tomcat's and others' jars under /usr/share/java in a CentOS 5.2 distribution I examined this morning. Oh,

Re: Peering into the pit of jar hell - the mess of tomcat's and other jars in RPM distributions

2009-05-22 Thread Gary Weaver
Martin, Thanks much for the time you spent on the explanation. However (and hopefully I'm being brief also)- one of issues in doing this is that wsdl4j.jar could (in-general) be any version of wsdl4j not necessarily something that just happens to be populated with one or more classes that do