Strub, thank you for your comments. Unfortunately (as I already wrote two times before) this thread started by the exact problem of overloading a JRE class (Resource annotation) by javaee6.jar... so it just don't work (otherwise I wouldn't have started this thread).
Anyway, thanks for chiming in! :-) Regards Markus > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Struberg [mailto:strub...@yahoo.de] > Sent: Dienstag, 25. September 2012 21:48 > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: How to put a dependency in the classpath BEFORE jre.jar? > > I did not read through the whole thread, so maybe I missed (sorry for > that). > > Afaik maven plugins use a different ClassLoader hierarchy than you > might expect. > Most frameworks use ParentClassLoaderFirst, but maven afaik uses > ClientClassLoaderFirst. > > Which means it's perfectly fine to to put a javax.* dependency in your > plugin classpath. The only thing which is not allowed is to overwrite > native SE stuff. > > LieGrue, > strub > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > > To: Maven Users List <users@maven.apache.org> > > Cc: > > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:08 PM > > Subject: Re: How to put a dependency in the classpath BEFORE jre.jar? > > > > Markus, > > > > If you want to join in on the fun of the development community, > please > > join us on the dev list. As you've heard on this thread, your > > particular concern smacks into a messy conundrum about our desire to > > avoid breaking other people's tools that read poms -- no matter how > > poorly coded. However, there is a design in progress, it needs more > > refinement, and mostly it will need people to actually code it. > > > > --benson > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org