Why is that?  There are still problems with the first three artifacts being 
uploaded to maven central.

On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Andreas Pieber wrote:

> I think it will be better to integrate them into a forth artifact
> wicket.jar. This will make it easier to integrate wicket-osgi tomorrow :-)
> On Aug 16, 2011 10:18 PM, "Brian Topping" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There are definitely a number of ways to go about it. What I am
> considering at the moment is that the build will proceed normally for -util
> and -request, but set the deploy plugin to not deploy for those first two.
> Then -core will integrate the contents of the other two (from local
> repository only) and allow the deploy plugin to operate normally.
>> 
>> On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Martin Grigorov wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Andreas Pieber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 21:22, Martin Grigorov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Indeed it is Maven problem. We (Wicket devs) want to keep the code
>>>>> clean and that's why the old wicket.jar from 1.4 has been split in
>>>>> three modules. The goal is that -util classes are just utilities, they
>>>>> should not know about Application, RequestCycle, Session, etc.
>>>>> -request can use the classes from -util but again should not see
>>>>> Application, RequestCycle, Session, etc.
>>>>> The best solution for both devs and users I think would be if Maven
>>>>> supported the scenario where you have several modules which depend on
>>>>> each other but should not be installed/deployed in local/remote repos.
>>>>> If this was/is possible then we can merge those sub-modules at install
>>>>> time in wicket.jar again and everything will be the same from user
>>>>> perspective. But AFAIK it is not possible to tell Maven to not
>>>>> install/deploy modules.
>>>>> Maybe we can solve that with a second pom.xml - one pom.xml for
>>>>> developers and another for official builds.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This could be also done in one pom. Still one option would be to still
>>>> deploy them AND repackage them (into e.g. wicket.jar). I think this is
> the
>>>> same (or at least very similar) to what Brian has in mind :-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> We have different understanding about "get into wicket" :-)
>>>>> You want to put the new classes in wicket-core and I prefer to put
>>>>> them in o.a.w:wicket-osgi:jar which still will be part of Wicket
>>>>> distro and will be used only by users who deploy apps in OSGi
>>>>> containers. So you can develop in wicketstuff/wicket-osgi and when
>>>>> ready we can just adopt it in Wicket.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> No we're not :-) I just want to name all options. If it is really only
> the
>>>> problem of repackaging we can add wicket-osgi and pack wicket-osgi,
> core,
>>>> request and util into one wicket.jar. This one can deploy without any
>>>> problem (and although there are (optional) osgi deps to any j2ee server
> AND
>>>> on any osgi environment. If someone is really caring about the ten
>>>> additional osgi classes never used he can still use core, util and
> request;
>>>> otherwise the repacked wicket.jar will also do.
>>> Not sure what Brian has in mind but the idea is to not deploy -util,
>>> -request and -core in Maven Cental repo.
>>> Those should be something which stays in Wicket's kitchen. Maven will
>>> use them to build the uber jar (wicket.jar) which will be deployed
>>> with the proper OSGi headers in Maven repos and used by users.
>>> Only Wicker devs will know about -util, -request, -core,
>>> -whatever-we-split-later...
>>> 
>>> The same can be achieved with CheckStyle but this is a different topic.
>>>> 
>>>> The reason why I would like to work in a fork is NOT core util and
> request.
>>>> We do not have to change anything there. BUT for e.g. spring we'll have
> to.
>>>> And I don't think that we want to play the same game there again
> (additional
>>>> package and repacking). This sounds ways overpowered for about 2-3
>>>> additional classes.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> But I guess it is a matter of 10 files or so, so there is not big
>>>>> difference.
>>>>> In both cases I'd like to have some tests which will verify that OSGi
>>>>> stuff still works for the next release. Maybe integration tests ?!
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> No discussion about this. While pax-wicket might not have the highest
>>>> unit-test coverage I've about 87% coverage by integration tests.
> Pax-Exam in
>>>> combination with Tiny-Bundle and HTML-Unit is extremly useful such
>>>> situations. So there will be enough tests that you know immediately if
> any
>>>> change breaks the osgi integration :-)
>>>> 
>>>> I'm a little bit busy tomorrow morning but I'll start tomorrow evening
>>>> providing first ideas in a wicket fork based on Brian's implementation.
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Andreas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I cannot
>>>>>>> decide that by myself. I have just a single vote.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Of cause; that's why we/I discuss this here in public to reach as many
>>>>>> wicket devs as possible :-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I personally don't like the approach "merge -util, -request and -core
>>>>>>> into wicket.jar (as in Wicket 1.4) and put the additional OSGi
> related
>>>>>>> code there too.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In that way I think the following solution might be more interesting
> for
>>>>>> you: use the split-package approach to osgify all three jars and add
> an
>>>>>> additional wicket-osgi package containing all the osgi specific code.
>>>>> I've
>>>>>> already taken a quick look at guice and spring and although there are
>>>>> some
>>>>>> additions required I think they can be included directly in those
>>>>>> "side-projects". Does this sound interesting for you?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> No matter what you decide I'll be glad to help you!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you very much Martin!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Andreas Pieber <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hey Martin,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I think this is more kind of a principle question. Yes, it is
> possible
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> keep this all in wicketstuff/pax-wicket. We can also fork wicket and
>>>>>>>> implement osgi support there. Or I can use maven to adapt and
>>>>>>>> overwrite/repack wicket in pax-wicket as required.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> So again, this thread isn't about what can be done, but rather what
>>>>>>> should
>>>>>>>> be done. What is the best for wicket and what is the best for osgi.
>>>>>>> Wicket
>>>>>>>> can become THE webframework for osgi. As long as we do not commit to
>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> goal of making wicket a first class osgi framework (but rather work
> in
>>>>>>>> pax-wicket/wicket stuff) people will always have the feeling that
>>>>> there
>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>> only minor interests into supporting osgi and eg move on to vaadin.
>>>>> IMHO
>>>>>>>> this could not be the goal of such a great framework as wicket.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> OK back to the main topic of this thread. I understand that wicket
> 1.5
>>>>> is
>>>>>>>> already on its way and that you do not want to add anything "new and
>>>>>>>> possible dangerous" to the release. On the other hand i've collected
>>>>> tons
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> experience in the past half year developing pax-wicket. As a karaf
> pmc
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> technical architect of various other open and closed source osgi
> i've
>>>>>>>> collected enough experience to be sure that we can also introduce
> osgi
>>>>>>>> support in e.g 1.5.1. There will be extensions to the manifest.mf,
>>>>>>>> activators, bundle and service listeners. Also changes to the class
>>>>>>> loading
>>>>>>>> at various places, but I promise that none of those changes will
>>>>> effect
>>>>>>>> wicket runtime in a j2ee server. If this is not the idea we can also
>>>>>>> start
>>>>>>>> adding osgi support from the first 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT packages.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I really want to do this in a public non-intrusive way presenting
> the
>>>>>>>> possible options we have per move giving you the option to add all
>>>>>>> concerns
>>>>>>>> you have.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> From this point of view, if you want users to "reference" only
>>>>>>> wicket-core
>>>>>>>> option two is the way to go. In case you want them to reference
>>>>>>> everything
>>>>>>>> option one is the one to go. If you want to provide an all package
>>>>> anyhow
>>>>>>> 3
>>>>>>>> is the right one. Depending on this we can provide an implementation
>>>>> in a
>>>>>>>> fork on github and further discuss advantages/disadvantages. WDYT?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Kind regards, Andreas
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Martin Grigorov
>>>>>>> jWeekend
>>>>>>> Training, Consulting, Development
>>>>>>> http://jWeekend.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Martin Grigorov
>>>>> jWeekend
>>>>> Training, Consulting, Development
>>>>> http://jWeekend.com
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Martin Grigorov
>>> jWeekend
>>> Training, Consulting, Development
>>> http://jWeekend.com
>>> 
>> 

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