I've hit a similar problem. Except with the testing. Here's an example:
The kernel project contains some tests that use JBoss common's JBossXB implementation. It works fine for compilation in that all I need to include is jboss-common.jar. But when it comes to do testing, I need to include the other dependencies of jboss-common.jar for it to be able to instantiate the classes, namely (in fact I only need a subset of these): | <include input="commons"/> | <include input="concurrent"/> | <include input="dom4j"/> | <include input="jaxme"/> | <include input="log4j"/> | <include input="regexp"/> | <include input="slide"/> | <include input="wutka"/> | <include input="xerces"/> | With the current build, this isn't a problem (I suppose it depends how you define problem) because the testsuite module just includes nearly all the modules and most of thirdparty. But I was thinking we could do better than that this by adding the dependencies to the manifest of the jar. e.g. jboss-microcontainer.jar would have Class-Path: jboss-common.jar, concurrent.jar We could then automatically add these artifacts to the classpath when running tests. This information could also be useful at runtime, potentially allowing the microcontainer to prevalidate the class dependencies. Whether we use the spec defined Class-Path manifest entry (which has some semantics we may not desire) or define our own entry is up for debate. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3862994#3862994 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3862994 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
