Wild guess. Could it be a workaround for a command line length limitation on Windows (and to a much lesser extent on Linux)?
-- Sergei Ivanov > >Tuesday, 30 December 2014 22:00 +0000 from Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net>: >I'm fine with deprecating it. There has often been a "tradition" of having >external file for listing things, which IMHO is a Maven anti-pattern. All >configuration should be in the POM. (Most likely though it comes from some use >case where the file names are produced externally and put in a separate file.) > >/Anders > >On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Lennart Jörelid < lennart.jore...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>Hello all, >> >>The jaxb2 maven plugin currently contains a parameter called schemaListFile >>with the declaration and documentation as shown below. >> >>I'm wondering what the use case for having this configuration parameter is - >>or if we could simply deprecate it for version 2 of the jaxb maven plugin. I >>can't find any ITs testing this property, although it is implemented in the >>current Mojo. >> >>So, basically: why is it beneficial to generate a file holding a list of >>paths [to XSD files] as opposed to printing that list of paths directly into >>the POM? My inclination is to simply remove this option in version 2 of the >>plugin unless someone lets me know why that would be a bad choice. >> >>The configuration option in question is: >> >>/** >> * A filename containing the list of files to use for schemas, comma >> delimited. >> * If none, then all xsd files are used in the schemaDirectory.<br> >> * Note: you can only use either the 'schemaFiles' or the 'schemaListFileName' >> * option (you may not use both at once!). >> */ >>@Parameter >>protected String schemaListFileName; >>-- >>-- >+==============================+ >| Bästa hälsningar, >| [sw. "Best regards"] >| >| Lennart Jörelid >| EAI Architect & Integrator >| >| jGuru Europe AB >| Mölnlycke - Kista >| >| Email: l...@jguru.se >| URL: www.jguru.se >| Phone >| (skype): jgurueurope >| (intl): +46 708 507 603 >| (domestic): 0708 - 507 603 >+==============================+
