On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jacek Laskowski wrote:
On Jan 8, 2008 9:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Author: dblevins
Date: Tue Jan 8 12:17:31 2008
New Revision: 610126
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=610126&view=rev
Log:
Added plugin that can spit a list of the dependencies into the META-
INF/ directory of the jar
What do we need it for? I mean we get the report generated and...
Motivated by Alex who sent me like five emails one day. He threw the
openejb-core jar in his classpath and expcted that to work then sent
me the four subsequent emails saying "i've added foo.jar now i'm
getting NoClassDefFoundError on foo.class". I'd like to find a way to
check for our deps then print the txt version in an error message
including the list of jars we require.
The other thing I've wanted for quite a while is to print something
into the lib/ directory of our standalone distro so if people aren't
using JMS, for example, they know what jars they can delete. Or on
the flip side, if they want to add webservices we can put a list on
the website of the jars they have to add.
But in general it's really useful for figuring out where deps are
coming from. When I trimmed the deps in standalone from 30 meg to 14
meg I literally had to trial and error-style delete jars from my repo
i didn't think should be in the assembly, build the assembly offline,
and see the dependency trail in the "can't download" error message,
then add the exclude to the dep that the trail showed as asking for
the dep. Was a real PITA.
-David
