> On 22 Aug 2016, at 11:45, Guillaume Delhumeau <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> I had a similar problem in a custom flavor for XWiki SAS. For the
> Jetty/HSQL package, I made a custom maven plugin, based on the packager
> plugin, which install all JAR dependencies in "data/extensions" instead of
> WEB-INF/lib, and I did not include these dependences in the WAR
> 
> See:
> https://github.com/xwikisas/xcs/tree/master/xcs-tools/xcs-tools-dependenciespackager

Thanks Guillaume. We mentioned this but it doesn’t work for the WAR packaging.

Thanks
-Vincent

> 
> 2016-08-16 21:03 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 16 Aug 2016, at 19:18, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Interesting problem :)
>>> 
>>> So the CKEditor extension should not be considered a core extension,
>> i.e. it should not find its way in WEB-INF/lib.
>>> 
>>> One idea to achieve this is to allow bundling some uninstalled
>> extensions in WEB-INF (for example inside WEB-INF/extensions) and have
>> XWiki install them when it starts the first time (as a DW step for example).
>>> 
>>> Basically they’re considered as bundled third-party extensions and not
>> as core extensions, and we define a mechanism to bundle third-party
>> extensions inside an XWiki WAR.
>>> 
>>> For the Jetty/HSQLDB distribution, we could install them directly since
>> we have access to the permanent directory. But we could also leave it as
>> part of a DW step.
>>> 
>>> WDYT?
>> 
>> Note that an alternative would be to map WEB-INF/extensions as an
>> additional extension repository. However, an important issue with this
>> would be that a WAR file should be considered as read only by servlet
>> containers (they can do whatever they want with it, expand it in some
>> custom directory, etc) and thus it would not be possible to remove/update
>> extensions. This is why I proposed that WEB-INF/extensions would contain
>> uninstalled extensions that XWiki would need to install.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
>>> 
>>>> On 01 Aug 2016, at 14:45, Marius Dumitru Florea <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi devs,
>>>> 
>>>> Thomas raised this issue http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1570 . One of
>> the
>>>> reasons we decided to keep the CKEditor Integration extension in
>> contrib,
>>>> with its own release cycle, was to allow the users to upgrade it without
>>>> the need to upgrade the entire XWiki distribution.
>>>> 
>>>> There wouldn't be any problem if the CKEditor Integration extension
>> didn't
>>>> had any JAR dependencies. But it depends on the CKEditor WebJar which
>> ends
>>>> up in the XWiki WAR and thus is considered a core extension, and core
>>>> extensions cannot be upgraded.
>>>> 
>>>> Here's what happens:
>>>> * xwiki-enterprise-ui-common depends on ckeditor-ui (
>>>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/blob/xwiki-
>> enterprise-8.2.1/xwiki-enterprise-ui/xwiki-enterprise-ui-common/pom.xml#
>> L168
>>>> )
>>>> * both xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki and xwiki-enterprise-ui-wiki depend
>> on
>>>> xwiki-enterprise-ui-common
>>>> * xwiki-enterprise-web depends on both xwiki-enterprise-ui-mainwiki and
>>>> xwiki-enterprise-ui-wiki (
>>>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/blob/xwiki-
>> enterprise-8.2.1/xwiki-enterprise-web/pom.xml#L837
>>>> ) in order to "transitively include all JAR dependencies in the
>> generated
>>>> WAR"
>>>> 
>>>> So the ckeditor-webjar ends up in the XE WAR, thus it becomes a core
>>>> extension. In order to fix this Thomas has proposed two solutions:
>>>> 
>>>> (1) Build 2 XE WARs: one that bundles the transitive JAR dependencies of
>>>> the UI (what we have currently) and one that doesn't bundle them. We
>> would
>>>> offer only the later for download on xwiki.org,
>>>> knowing that the transitive JAR dependencies will be installed when the
>> UI
>>>> is installed (with the Distribution Wizard for instance). The first WAR
>>>> would be used only for building the Jetty+HSQLDB distribution.
>>>> 
>>>> The downside of this solution is:
>>>> * we don't fix the problem for the Jetty+HSQLDB distribution
>>>> * the ui-all XAR would work only with the "all" WAR (the first one that
>>>> bundles the XAR dependencies)
>>>> 
>>>> (2) Exclude the JARs we don't want as core extensions from
>>>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/blob/xwiki-
>> enterprise-8.2.1/xwiki-enterprise-web/pom.xml#L837
>>>> , one by one. This would fix the WAR-based installations but not the
>>>> Jetty+HSQLDB distribution which uses the Import Mojo (
>>>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/blob/xwiki-
>> enterprise-8.2.1/xwiki-enterprise-data/pom.xml#L145
>>>> ) to generate the distribution data folder and thus won't get the
>>>> ckeditor-webjar. For this we would need to introduce a new Install Mojo
>> and
>>>> explicitly install the JAR dependecies we want (ckeditor-webjar in this
>>>> case).
>>>> 
>>>> The problem with this solution is the maintenance cost. We'll forget for
>>>> sure to exclude/install the JAR in XE's pom whenever we add a new JAR
>>>> dependency to one of the contrib extensions that are bundled in XE
>>>> (CKEditor and Tour for the moment).
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have any other ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> Solution (1) seems the best so far.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Marius
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