I think the shared libraries may solve this issue for a lot of people.
Do you have some more thoughts on how this capability may be made
available to users? Looking at what was checked in already it seems
that the user would have to create an array of the libDirs in code via
some home-grown mechanism and then invoke your class to update the
classpath. Do you already have plans for an easier way to expose this
to the users (perhaps via some server configuration or some new elements
on the deployment plans to add new shared libraries)?
Joe
Dain Sundstrom wrote:
One new feature I'm working on for 1.1 is support for tomcat style
shared libs. This creates a shared class loader visible to all j2ee
applications which contains shared/lib/*.jar and shared/classes/ to the
class loader.
Will this address your issues?
-dain
On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:
I have a situation where I need to make several web modules dependent
upon a large number of jars. I'd like to add the jars to the
Geronimo repo and add the dependencies into the plans for the web
modules. However, most of the jars don't follow the maven naming
convention because the names don't include a version (and I'd rather
not rename all the jars).
I know that there are changes being included in 1.1 to make the
version in a reference optional. However, I doubt that it is
possible to reference a jar in the repo that doesn't contain any
version. Just thought I should ask in case it really is possible. I
could see where this might be something users would like when they
have picked up jars from various places which may or may not contain
a version in the jar name.
If it *is* possible to have a non-versioned jar in the repo ... how
do we differentiate in geronimo 1.1 between a dependency on a non-
versioned jar versus a dependency on the latest version of a jar (in
case both are present).
Thanks for the help,
Joe
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