On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:26:31PM -0400, Weston M. Price wrote: > > On May 4, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:41:55AM -0400, Weston M. Price wrote: > >> In the JCA example code, we have a dependency on the Servlet API. > >> Currently we include a few JEE jars from Geronimo (ejb, jca etc). I would > >> like the include the geronimo-servlet-spec jar as well. Is it as simple as > >> taking a copy of the jar and putting it in the java/lib directory or is > >> there something more to it? > > > > Side question: > > > > Are there any plans to, in future, go with a Maven development > > environment for the Java code? That way we can avoid versioning > > artifacts. > > > I believe we tried this before and it was rife with issues. Personally, I > have never been a big fan of Maven for a variety of reasons. Robbie has > proposed using Ivy for our dependency management which I believe, and again, > this is my own opinion, does a good job of giving you dependency management > without forcing a particular project structure, build system etc.
I'm looking at it from the perspective of not wanting to carry tons of binary blogs in our version history. If we had our own public Maven repo we could use it to ensure availability of dependencies (in cases where the public maven repo somehow loses or doesn't carry one) if that was one of the objections. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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