Merlin is repository aware like maven and can pull jars and build classloader from these dependencies to fire up apps. Very powerful stuff.
You're not going mad I assure you its just the repositroy code doing that here: http://avalon.apache.org/repository/ Cheers, Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Vikas Phonsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:36 PM > To: 'Avalon framework users' > Subject: merlin jar downloads > > Guys, > Pls tell me what's going on here. When you run the merlin tutorial > examples > using the Merlin CLI for the first time lots of jars are downloaded to the > local repository from dpml ( or whatever ) and ibiblio. > > What is there in the CLI code that is doing that. What step does that. > > I have seen such downloads while using maven. > > But I copied the MerlinTestCase code into my IDE and loaded a component > there. Didn't use any maven, don't have any project.xml. > > This ran fine but all those jars where downloaded. So what step in CLI or > TestCase is doing that. > > Vikas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
