Scratchpad Dependencies

[Daniel Fagerstrom]

I planed to use some stuff in scratchpad for development. As I have a 
slow computer at home I always remove all blocks that I don't need to 
decrase compile time and startup time.

The tree below describe everything that the scratchpad block depend on. 
And this is without samples dependencies. 18 dependencies!!!

scratchpad
  axis
  cron
  faces
    portal
      authentication-fw
        session-fw
          xsp
      html
      session-fw
        xsp
    taglib
  javaflow
    forms
    ojb
      databases
        xsp
  repository
    databases
      xsp
    eventcache
      jms
        hsqldb
  velocity
  xsp
Hopefully some of them are just sample dependencies and can be removed. 
I have no fancy IDE, so I didn't succeed in tracking down all the 
dependencies. Especially I wonder about the dependency on faces, where 
comes that from?

But anyway the scratchpad start to become quite heavy. IMHO there are a 
lot of things in the scratchpad that would suit better as unstable 
blocks e.g. Garbage, the Cocoon Ant task, caching source, flow 
webservices, groovy, sitemap viewer and maybe some more.

Maybe there are some components that could graduate to core and some 
other that never lead anywhere and can be removed.

IMHO the scratchpad block should mainly be for isolated components that 
preferably only depends on core. As soon as there are a number of 
components that cooperates or have some common theme or introduces a lot 
of dependencies, they would better be packaged as a block, IMHO.

Maybe we should have a special directory for scratchpad blocks. Or maybe 
we could even have some mechanism that would make it easy to use 
scratchpad blocks that lives in the whiteboard directory.

WDYT?
/Danielf