Hi list,
Different microservices at one company often have some shared infrastructure, such as for Service Discovery. I'm looking to use the awesome Consul Client for Java (https://github.com/OrbitzWorldwide/consul-client), and build a library that our various (Maven-based Java) microservices can use. In order to make our library not too invasive in terms of dependency resolution, I like the idea of using Consul Client's "shaded JAR". I believe shaded JARs weren't really meant to be consumed by other Maven projects. But this may be a reasonable exception. But when you look at the output of such project (like here: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/orbitz/consul/consul-client/0.16.3/), you'll see a POM file with all the original dependencies, oblivious to the shading. Is there any known pattern of dealing with that? Like: "POM classifiers" - I know, I made that up. I also know there's an option to generate a "dependency reduced POM", but what good does that do if I can't depend on it? Should this project be generating two separate artifacts? (P.S.: I can certainly file an issue with the Consul Client project, but I want to be more helpful than that, and offer a concrete suggestion or a PR.) Thanks, Sander. Sander Verhagen [ san...@sanderverhagen.net<mailto:san...@sanderverhagen.net> ]
