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Svante Schubert commented on ODFTOOLKIT-464:
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If the dependency should be only on the slf4j API you should get in contact
with the Apache Jena project as their project is making this dependency
explicit.
Regarding the tools.jar, it should and - as far as I am aware of - is only used
during JavaDoc creation time. There were once build problems when Oracle
changed the location path of the tools.jar within the JDK with Java 8, but I am
not aware of any runtime dependency nor problems.
> Pom does not follow best practices: missing optional keyword
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> Key: ODFTOOLKIT-464
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-464
> Project: ODF Toolkit
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: simple api
> Reporter: Olivier Cailloux
> Priority: Minor
>
> When depending on Apache ODFToolkit simple-odf in my application
> (org.apache.odftoolkit:simple-odf:0.8.2-incubating), I observe that
> com.sun:tools is transitively imposed on my project as a dependency (coming
> from taglets, see its
> [POM|https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/odftoolkit/taglets/0.8.11-incubating/taglets-0.8.11-incubating.pom]).
> Similarly, org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12 is passed to my project as a dependency.
> I suspect these dependencies are actually not required for projects depending
> on simple-odf.
> It is possible and simple to ease the life of users of simple-odf by adding
> <optional> in the relevant pom files. This would respect Maven best
> practices. (See for example
> [SO|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32231814/how-can-i-remove-logback-from-a-librarys-dependency-while-keeping-slf4j].)
> Workaround: add exclusion rules for these artifacts (see this example
> [POM|https://github.com/oliviercailloux/Test-ODFToolkit-ODS/blob/master/pom.xml]).
> (I tried to discuss it
> [here|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6fa4257e67ede90bac58f5518e1be41e7561a451149cbc9eecdbbf1e@%3Codf-users.incubator.apache.org%3E]
> but received no answer.)
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