maven-shade-plugin works fine. It took me while to get it to work due to my maven noobness. If none object I will check in the xbean code into xwork, with the pom modifications .
musachy On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 30, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > >> Don Brown on 29/05/08 08:08, wrote: >>> >>> xbean-finder is already split into a common library, just it is part >>> of the xbean project rather than commons. From a technical level, >>> there is no difference. >>> The reason we want to copy the code over has less to do with the >>> project's stability but the desire to have fewer dependencies. >>> Don >>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> How about talking to the author about splitting it into a commons >>>> library? >>>> This would give the usual benefits of propogating bug fixes and avoid >>>> duplicate work on divergent code bases. >>>> >>>> Al. >>>> >>>> Musachy Barroso wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It is a standalone library, used heavily by the OpenEJB and Geronimo >>>>>> guys. >>>>>> >>>>> oops. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Personally, I favor copying the code over and jarjar'ing the asm >>>>>> dependency. >> >> Two quick questions: >> >> "jarjar'ing" the dependency? What does that mean? I hope I'm not the only >> one who isn't hip to the lingo! I guess if I knew the context better I could >> work it out. >> >> Secondly, I was wondering about the advantages of having fewer >> dependencies, especially in this maven era. If something's really great, >> it's fine to depend on it, surely? > > The term comes from a tool that essentially read in the byte code and > repackaged it. For example changing the java package from org.objectweb.asm > to org.apache.fooproject.asm. There are other tools that can do it now, > like the maven-shade-plugin, but it was the first that I'm aware of. > > The ASM guys themselves recommend repackaging their code due to the number > of people using different versions of ASM and that some of those versions of > incompatible. Hibernate is a good example of this as they use a really old > version of ASM. As this particular library is only 40K or so you can solve > a lot of potential headaches for users by getting it out of their way. > > -David > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "Hey you! Would you help me to carry the stone?" Pink Floyd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
