I've managed to get the jar number down to ten (six core/EJB/web + four app server-specific). That's definitely a more manageable number than thirty.
Still, in my situation, it would be easier to deal with one jar than ten. I'm going to put XDoclet in a company-wide repository of jars. When developers want to use XDoclet on a project, it would be simpler to tell them "grab xdoclet.jar and add this ant task" instead of "grab these ten jars in order to do these things". Inevitably someone will only grab xdoclet-1.2b2.jar and wonder why XDoclet doesn't work. So really, it's more of a support/learning curve issue than a technology issue. Not a huge deal, but I thought I'd check and see. Since there's no easy way to make one jar, I'll just add all ten and document the process. Perhaps having an option to build as one jar could be something to look at for version 2. Thanks, Adam -----Original Message----- From: Aslak Hellesoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Xdoclet-user] Packaging XDoclet in One Jar? As you correctly point out, it isn't as easy to merge the jars. Why is it more difficult to deal with 30 jar files than one? I mean, is it *really* more difficult? Aslak > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam > Houghton > Sent: 10. februar 2003 22:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Xdoclet-user] Packaging XDoclet in One Jar? > > > Is there an easy way to package all of the jar files in xdoclet/lib > into one big jar? I'm trying to add XDoclet to a company-wide set of > tools for developers. Things would be much easier if I could just add > one xdoclet.jar instead of the 30 jar files that are present in /lib. > > I tried unjarring all of the files from the jar files into one > directory and rejarring them, but each jar file has unique > META-INF/xdoclet.xml and META-INF/xtags.xml files that overwrite each > other. I also tried embedding the jars within one jar file, but Ant > won't recognize the inner-jar's classes in the classpath. > > If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Adam > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld =omething 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > xdoclet-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ xdoclet-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ xdoclet-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-user
