On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Mark Struberg wrote:

> I'd like to cook up something for a JSR, but need some more time. 
> David wrote xbean-finder and we could easily move this to commons or extract 
> it into a single jar in geronimo.

It's already a single jar with just the org.apache.xbean.finder code.  But I'm 
open to whatever.

> But first things first: will start with the owb-1.1.0 release now ;)

Thanks for that btw!  I really like all the recent work.  And I meant to say 
"thanks" for cloning that static related jira.  Perfect use of that feature.

On that static note, I was amazed at how much static code we still had after 
eliminating 95% of what showed up in the tests in the build and then in the 
standalone part of the TCK.  I didn't get around to the Web Profile part of the 
TCK.  But it seems either we need to write some more tests or delete some more 
code :)  I'm sure it will be some of both.


-David


> --- On Thu, 3/24/11, Sven Linstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Sven Linstaedt <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Classpath Scanner proposal
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:09 PM
>> Hi Mark,
>> 
>> that sounds absolutely reasonable. I am just interested in
>> the state of progress. Afaik xbean-finder is not a project,
>> but rather a single class of some Apache project, is not it?
>> So there are no plans any more to introduce this kind of
>> service via JSR?
>> 
>> Regards out of the train
>> 
>> Sven
>> 
>> -- sent by phone
>> 
>> Am 21.03.2011 um 18:42 schrieb Mark Struberg <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> Hi Sven!
>>> 
>>> Yea, I'm aiming for something like that. The major
>> benefit would be that we do not trash our ClassLoader with
>> all the reflection stuff only needed for the initial class
>> scanning. This is currently eating up lots of PermGenSpace.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Btw, the reflections project is based on the original
>> scannotation code from Bill Burke, so we aint that far away
>> ;)
>>> We are also looking for probably moving it over to
>> xbean-finder which David wrote for OpenEJB and is now also
>> being used in geronimo and a few other apache projects. But
>> we'll do that after 1.1.0 ;)
>>> 
>>> txs and LieGrue,
>>> strub
>>> 
>>> --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Sven Linstaedt <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> From: Sven Linstaedt <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: Classpath Scanner proposal
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 5:35 PM
>>>> Another interesting use case would
>>>> look like using some kind of
>>>> pre-generated scanning information created during
>>>> build-time.
>>>> 
>>>> Artifacts are in general considered final after
>> creation,
>>>> so scans done at
>>>> runtime will return the same result. This result
>> could be
>>>> generated during
>>>> build-time and inlined into the artifact in a
>> serialized
>>>> form, which in turn
>>>> in used during runtime to further speed up scan
>> jobs. [1]
>>>> is doing something
>>>> similar by providing a maven plugin.
>>>> 
>>>> br, Sven
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/reflections/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2011/2/27 Mark Struberg <[email protected]>
>>>> 
>>>>> I think it should be enough if the
>> classscanner
>>>> implementation itself
>>>>> shades any such 3rd party jar into a inner
>>>> dependency.
>>>>> My main focus currently is to design the API
>> flexible
>>>> enough to allow all
>>>>> necessary use cases to work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> LieGrue,
>>>>> strub
>>>>> 
>>>>> --- On Sun, 2/27/11, Jan-Kees van Andel <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> From: Jan-Kees van Andel <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Classpath Scanner proposal
>>>>>> To: [email protected],
>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>> Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 1:35 PM
>>>>>> +1, although I think Jar hell is a
>>>>>> real issue. Think about libraries like
>>>>>> cglib, asm or commons-*** and the pain
>> they
>>>> sometimes
>>>>>> cause.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But we can easily work around it, for
>> example by
>>>> packaging
>>>>>> all
>>>>>> using-frameworks as uber-jars and
>> renaming
>>>>>> the "org.apache.commons.classscan"
>> packages to
>>>> something
>>>>>> like
>>>> "org.apache.myfaces.org.apache.commons.classscan"
>>>>>> and
>>>> 
>> "org.apache.webbeans.org.apache.commons.classscan".
>>>>>> This way we prevent
>>>>>> any future versioning issues that
>> libraries like
>>>> cglib and
>>>>>> asm currently
>>>>>> have.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Jan-Kees
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2011/2/27 Mark Struberg <[email protected]>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Jan-Kees!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Txs for this info!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Of course, I think the downside of
>> getting
>>>> another
>>>>>> dependency to myfaces
>>>>>>> would highly be outvalued by the
>> benefit
>>>> we'd gain
>>>>>> from it :)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> LieGrue,
>>>>>>> strub
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --- On Sun, 2/27/11, Jan-Kees van
>> Andel
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> From: Jan-Kees van Andel <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Classpath Scanner
>>>> proposal
>>>>>>>> To: [email protected],
>>>>>> [email protected],
>>>>>> "Mark
>>>>>>> Struberg" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Date: Sunday, February 27, 2011,
>> 12:58
>>>> PM
>>>>>>>> Hey Mark,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> About the JSR proposal. I've
>> actually
>>>> been
>>>>>> talking to some
>>>>>>>> Oracle folks
>>>>>>>> about this idea some (like 3?)
>> years
>>>> ago. They
>>>>>> didn't
>>>>>>>> really like it, since
>>>>>>>> the classpath is only a VM
>>>> implementation
>>>>>> detail.
>>>>>>>> I proposed it, because back then
>> there
>>>> were
>>>>>> already rumours
>>>>>>>> about module
>>>>>>>> systems and writing a mechanism
>> that
>>>> relies on
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> classpath seemed like a
>>>>>>>> bad idea at that time. A JSR (like
>> 277
>>>> back then)
>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>> keep annotation
>>>>>>>> scanning in mind while writing
>> the
>>>> spec.
>>>>>>>> I pinged them again (I think it
>> was
>>>> last year)
>>>>>> and they
>>>>>>>> responded that they
>>>>>>>> would think about adding an
>> annotation
>>>> scanner to
>>>>>> Jigsaw,
>>>>>>>> but a JSR was out
>>>>>>>> of the question.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I think mentioning their names
>> here is
>>>>>> inappropriate, but
>>>>>>>> they're influential people in the
>>>> Java/JCP
>>>>>> world...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This is not a reason to not write
>> a
>>>> framework or
>>>>>> to not
>>>>>>>> submit a JSR, but I
>>>>>>>> thought I'd mention it...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Ps. Maybe it's a good idea to
>> "promote"
>>>> XBean
>>>>>> Finder and
>>>>>>>> use it in
>>>>>>>> MyFaces/OWB/etc...?
>>>>>>>> Ps2. IIRC, we implemented our own
>>>> scanner for
>>>>>> MyFaces, for
>>>>>>>> the simple reason
>>>>>>>> that it removes an additional
>>>> dependency. But,
>>>>>> OTOH, using
>>>>>>>> XBean Finder with
>>>>>>>> the Maven Shade Plugin would also
>>>> work...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Jan-Kees
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 2011/2/27 Mark Struberg <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi Ivan!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Yes, I already prepared for
>> the
>>>> addition of
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> xbean-finder based
>>>>>>>>> ClassScanner implementation.
>> But
>>>> since I
>>>>>> didn't reach
>>>>>>>> David yesterday and I
>>>>>>>>> personally don't know
>> xbean-finder
>>>> well
>>>>>> enough, I just
>>>>>>>> started hacking on a
>>>>>>>>> scannotation based one
>> (similar to
>>>> the one
>>>>>> we use in
>>>>>>>> OpenWebBeans).
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> LieGrue,
>>>>>>>>> strub
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> --- On Sun, 2/27/11, Ivan
>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> From: Ivan <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Classpath
>>>> Scanner
>>>>>> proposal
>>>>>>>>>> To: [email protected],
>>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sunday, February
>> 27,
>>>> 2011, 12:01
>>>>>> PM
>>>>>>>>>> Totally agree the idea,
>> in
>>>> Geronimo,
>>>>>>>>>> it is definitely an issue,
>> as
>>>> many
>>>>>>>>>> components need to scan
>> the
>>>> target
>>>>>> application,
>>>>>>>> and we are
>>>>>>>>>> trying to improve
>>>>>>>>>> this, e,g. In the
>>>> xbean-finder, we use
>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> filter to limit
>>>>>>>>>> the scanning
>>>>>>>>>> scope. Also, we hope to
>> have
>>>> a
>>>>>> sharable
>>>>>>>> annotation scanning
>>>>>>>>>> tool, and open a
>>>>>>>>>> JIRA to track this.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5644
>>>>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/xbean/trunk/xbean-bundleutils/src/main/java/org/apache/xbean/osgi/bundle/util/ResourceDiscoveryFilter.java
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 2011/2/27 Mark Struberg
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> hi folks!
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Since I'm tired of
>>>> waiting for my
>>>>>> EE stack
>>>>>>>> to startup
>>>>>>>>>> because each and
>>>>>>>>>>> every library
>> implements
>>>> it's own
>>>>>> classpath
>>>>>>>> scanner
>>>>>>>>>> over and over again, I
>>>>>>>>>>> thought about
>>>> introducing a
>>>>>> proposal for a
>>>>>>>> framework
>>>>>>>>>> which allows to first
>>>>>>>>>>> register 'ScanJobs'
>> and
>>>> then just
>>>>>> does all
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> necessary classpath
>> scanning
>>>>>>>>>>> only once.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> If it turns out to
>> work
>>>> well, then
>>>>>> I even
>>>>>>>> consider
>>>>>>>>>> this to get submitted as
>>>>>>>>>>> JSR...
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> But before this point
>>>> gets
>>>>>> reached, a lot of
>>>>>>>> work is
>>>>>>>>>> still waiting.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I hope a few people
>> are
>>>> interested
>>>>>> in this
>>>>>>>> work and
>>>>>>>>>> help me
>>>>>>>>>>> specifying/testing
>> the
>>>> needs!
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> The api and a bit of
>>>> docs can be
>>>>>> found at my
>>>>>>>> github
>>>>>>>>>> repo [1][2].
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm currently working
>>>> on
>>>>>> 'scannizing'
>>>>>>>> OpenWebBeans
>>>>>>>>>> (and later MyFaces) as a
>>>>>>>>>>> real world example.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> LieGrue,
>>>>>>>>>>> strub
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/struberg/Apache-commons-classscanner/
>>>>>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> https://github.com/struberg/Apache-commons-classscanner/wiki/Apache-Commons-ClassScan-proposal
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Ivan
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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