OK, this issue has apparently been open in Spring since October of last year. I voted on it and added a comment: http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-3971
dkulp wrote: > > On Friday 28 March 2008, Glen Mazza wrote: >> I'm basically neutral on this, but I want to make sure the first >> advantage is legitimate. Are you sure you can't use >> "-DdownloadSources=true" on your mvn eclipse:eclipse to grab the >> source files of the subsetted JARs of Spring? (I.e., you indeed see no >> source entries in the .classpath file if you do that?) It would seem >> unnatural for the Spring project to require you to embed their full >> JAR just so you can get the source to the subset that you need for >> Eclipse debugging. > > Yea. If you look in the maven repo, the sources jars aren't there. For > example: > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-core/2.0.8/ > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-beans/2.0.8/ > > Wheras the full spring jar has it: > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring/2.0.8/ > > > Dan > > > >> Glen >> >> dkulp wrote: >> > What are peoples thoughts about changing from using the minimal >> > spring jars to using the full spring jar? >> > >> > The main advantages I see are: >> > * Debugging is eclipse works as the full spring jar has the sources >> > jar in maven. This is huge to me. :-) >> > * Only one jar to deal with in lib (kind of, see disadvantages) >> > * Would be a little bit easier to write some of the testcases and >> > stuff around some of the other features (like aop) as we wouldn't >> > need to track down so of those extra dependency jars and such. >> > >> > Main disadvantages: >> > * The main spring jars sucks in a TON of dependencies. We'll have >> > to look at it very carefully for things that can/should be excluded. >> > Otherwise, we get a ton of EXTRA jars in lib. >> > * It's slightly larger. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > >> > -- >> > J. Daniel Kulp >> > Principal Engineer, IONA >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > > > > -- > J. Daniel Kulp > Principal Engineer, IONA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Change-to-full-spring-jar--tp16361624p16370749.html Sent from the cxf-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
