Yes it is sometimes a violation of licensing terms to insert metadata into a JAR's manifest. In that case the best approach is to wrap the target JAR with a bundle JAR. That is, the unaltered commercial JAR is nested inside the bundle JAR, with the Bundle-Classpath property set to point at it.
Regards Neil On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Dmitry Skavish <[email protected]> wrote: > Neil, > >> However, I'm surprised that most of your JARs are not available as >> bundles. The SpringSource repository in particular is very >> comprehensive and includes almost every open source Java library I've >> ever heard of (and a great many I haven't). Are you using a lot of >> specialised or closed source libraries? > > We are using quite a few commercial libs. I am not even sure you could > repackage them as bundles without breaking their license. > > I ran several searches on springsource for free libs we are using, but > besides obvious ones (like apache-xxx) I could not find most of them: fop, > foxtrot, freehep, glazedlists, jgoodies, jogl etc. > > -- > Dmitry Skavish > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
