On 05 Nov 2010, at 2:20 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote:
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Salgar, Mehmet (external)
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have a question about how to replace a class in a dependency jar
after
a bug fix....
I made a fix for a class in a framework that is not developed from
us,
now during our build process I like to place patched class inside of
original dependency....
So my question is there a maven plugin for this purpose....I know,
I can
do this with maven ant plugin but I hoping may be there is a better
way...
The short answer is, No.
Doing it that way is just asking for a world of pain.
The correct way is to provide the patch back to the original project
and then get a new release cut.
While you wait for that to happen, create an internal release of that
project that contains your patch.
Following something like
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Patching+Maven+Plugins
(but it will be simpler since you are not patching a plugin)
I can't stress the pain this causes enough.
It's bad enough when you're forced to get a version of production code
up and running to fix a bug. When that code suddenly exhibits a new
bug, because the magic version of some nameless jar is suddenly
different, but it's completely impossible to tell they are different,
you risk losing the will to live.
Please, don't do it.
Regards,
Graham
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