> -----Original Message----- > From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:16 PM > To: Excalibur Developers List > Subject: Minor Grumble with Maven and Repository > > We have incorporated APIs from SUN like JMS, JSSE, and JavaMail, and > that is not necessarily a bad thing. The problem is that JMS and JSSE > become increasingly hard to find on the Java site. Why? Because JSSE > is part of J2SE 1.4 and above and JMS is part of J2EE 1.2 and above. > > I had a real time of it finding the necessary libraries--and in the case > of JSSE, the download is not necessary if we are compiling with a new > enough JVM. Unfortunately Maven forces this on me because the project > descriptor does not provide a way to test if the library is present in > the classpath other than by checking the repository for the JAR. > > Again this is a minor gripe, and if we could keep a link to the web > pages to download and instructions on how to install the libraries we > can avoid most of the vocal user grumbles.
Another solution, at least for JMS, is to use the Geronimo jars at: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/geronimo-spec/jars/ JavaMail has been a problem for a lot of people. I think some of the James crew were looking at a solution a while back. Not sure if they found one. J. Aaron Farr SONY ELECTRONICS STP SYSTEMS (724) 696-7653 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Excalibur Project -- URL: http://excalibur.apache.org/
