I don't think there is a compile-time dependency. Rather it's a config dependency - JRC, for example, require that an entry to the mysql jdbc library be present in the config file. The config file is read by an attributes class, which can be queried for the name of the jdbc connector. So, as far as the JCS (sorry, I said JRC in my original email) code is concerned, at compile time, there is no dependency on mysql-connector. But realistically, at run-time, there is. And the comment in the code reflects that.
See the config file for JCS here: http://jakarta.apache.org/jcs/JDBCDiskCache.html Simon On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 3, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Simon Courtenage wrote: > > > Quite a few apache projects have dependencies on the official mysql java > > jdbc connector, in the sense that their product requires it to connect to > > mysql databases. Tomcat is one, for example, as is, I believe, JRC (the > > source code for JRC has a comment that mentions org.gjt.mm.mysql.driver, > > which is an old precursor of the official mysql jdbc driver). So does > > airavata need to be different? > > Hello Simon, > > Thank you for chiming in. No Airavata need not be different, I am asking > out of ignorance. Do you know how these projects handle the GPL license of > the official mysql-connector? I tried to poke around but could not find a > concrete example. Can you please pass a reference which has a pom dependency > of this jar (either compile or run time)? > > Suresh > > > > > Simon Courtenage > > > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> One of our incubation goals [1] is to resolve the the incompatible > license > >> dependencies. AFAIK, the biggest or only incompatible dependency is the > >> mysql-connector-jave which is GPL. Suggestions for alternatives? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Suresh > >> > >> [1] - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AiravataProposal > >
