I respectfully disagree, there is no way I want us copying
functionality from commons-lang into myfaces.
-bd-
On Oct 18, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Simon Kitching wrote:
Hi,
Class org.apache.myfaces.custom.calendar.HtmlCalendarRenderer.java
has had a dependency on commons-lang added. This means that my app
which previously worked fine now fails with a NoClassDefFoundError.
The dependency was introduced by r289859 (mmarinschek) on 2005-09-18.
I would recommend removing dependencies on commons-lang if
possible. It's always nice for a library such as myfaces to keep
its dependencies as small as possible.
I've searched for "org.apache.commons.lang" and found the following
classes currently depend on it:
HtmlCalendarRenderer (method EscapeUtils.escapeJavaScript)
HtmlJsValueSetRenderer (same)
JspStateManagerImpl (EqualsBuilder and HashCodeBuilder)
I think it's quite feasable for myfaces to copy this o.a.c.lang
functionality into the myfaces project.
On the general topic of binary compatibility, may I recommend the
CLIRR project:
http://clirr.sourceforge.net/
Given two jars it will tell you whether they are binary compatible
or not. It also generates a nice report of the API changes made
which can be useful for creating release notes.
Regards,
Simon
