Folks, If your project has dependency on lift-core, this is important for you!
lift-core stands deprecated and Lift 2.0-M2 would be the penultimate milestone with support for lift-core. Subsequently (after the milestone 2.0-M3) it would be unsupported.
lift-core is a 'meta' module that can be added as a dependency to a Lift based application to pull in all the Lift modules. The initial purpose of having single dependency on this 'meta' module in the application was to conveniently serve as a singular configuration point in a Lift based application.
However, this comes for a cost. Since lift-core downloads and enforces bundling all the Lift modules (irrespective of whether the project needs it), adding this as the dependency slows down things for a standard Lift application that doesn't need all the additional modules. Further, this makes the generated application war much larger than necessary.
Going forward, just discontinue using lift-core in your project and for alternative(s), follow these general guidelines:
1. If you are using any of the persistence modules (lift-mapper, lift-jpa, lift-record), just have the respective persistence module as dependency. You *do not* need to add any of the other base modules (lift-common, lift-actor, lift-json, lift-util, lift-webkit) as dependency.
2. If you are not using the persistence module (possibly because your app doesn't need such support), just including lift-webkit should suffice.
3. Additionally, if you are using any of the special purpose modules (from lift-modules), add that to the list of dependencies in addition to the ones added in #1 or #2 above.
In all the above cases, the additional dependencies necessary (and just the necessary ones) for the respective modules would be pulled transitively in your project automatically.
This would make your application lighter by having more precise dependency map. And that's a good thing!
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