Thanks for looking into this Thomas. If there are not currently JAX-RS implementations in Debian, its a bit of a problem. I just presumed the jersey stuff reasonable. What if we updated to a newer version? Or used less of it?
St.Ack On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > Hi, > > I've problems packaging the stargate (REST) contrib for HBase. The used JAX-RS > implementation jersey has so many yet "undebianized" dependencies, that I > won't be able to include this contrib anytime soon in the upcoming Debian > package. > This is only to let you know about my desperation. > But there's only the thing that jersey and it's dependencies on java.net > (jaxb, jsr311, txw, ...?) are insane in such an amount[1], that I dare to ask, > whether you could imagine using an alternative JAX-RS[2] implementation? > Chances are low, that you'd consider this only because of a distributions sane > policy to build everything from source, but who knows...? > And on the other hand, none of the alternative JAX-RS implementations are > packaged for Debian yet. So in any case it's a long way to get stargate into > Debian. > > [1] source code archives are very well hidden, in different formats (jar, zip) > and strange directory layouts with or without build system files... > [2] http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/10/jaxrs-comparison > > Thanks for sympathy. > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >
