Thanks for the pointers Paul.
>>I just don't think you can 'package' up a distribution that includes these
>>jars in your distribution.
Clearly the binary distribution need not bundle servlet-api.jar - a demo.war
file is all that is needed.
However, is the source distribution exempt from this restriction? It would be
convenient if the build.xml "just worked", referencing our included copy of
servlet-api.jar rather than requiring the user to configure the
build.properties etc to point to their copy of the API. If this bundling was an
issue, would an acceptable solution be to have an ANT task to download the
servlet-api.jar from a Sun server?
Mark
----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June, 2007 8:13:24 AM
Subject: Re: How to handle servlet-api.jar in build?
On 12/06/2007, at 5:09 PM, markharw00d wrote:
> As part of the documentation push I was considering putting
> together an updated demo web app which showed a number of things
> (indexing, search, highlighting, XML Query templates etc) and was
> wondering what that might mean to the build system if I was
> dependent on the servlet API. Are there any licence concerns around
> handling servlet-api.jar that I should be aware of? I know Apache
> foundation does not like linking to non-Apache code.
>
>
You should be fine on this, since many Apache apps need to reference
the servlet-api and jsp-api jars. (JSTL for a start..).
I just don't think you can 'package' up a distribution that includes
these jars in your distribution. That is, a downloaded unit from
Apache can't include that jar in the distribution.
The log4j projects I work in references quite a few non-ASL licensed
things, and as long as you can build a distribution environment that
requires the user to download that (and agree to any licensing bits
and bobs), you should be fine.
This is where Maven is cool...
cheers,
Paul
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