Re: [Informa-developer] Including sources in the jar file

[Nilesh B. <nil...@gm...>]

Hi Italo,

> Eclipse offers a good way to attach source code to jars (
> http://help.eclipse.org/help31/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tasks/tasks-115.htm).
> That is the common way to have the source information while developing and
> debugging.
Yes, sources can be attached to eclipse. But this requires the
developer to download the source files for each of the library he is
using and add sources. A common application would use 15-20 libraries,
and each developer is required to do so. So including sources is just
a matter of convenience.

> Source information increases the jar file size. Consequently, the time of
> deployment is increased, what is not good. See
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/performance/1st_edition/html/JPDeployment.fm.htmlAnother
One problem is that the file size increases by around 200K. This I
agree is bad as it increases the download time. This means that an
java applet written using Informa will take extra second to load
(download time). I think the increase in size does not affect the
performance of desktop applications (please correct me if I am wrong).

> solution is to have 2 distributions: with and without code.
This may be a good option.

thanks
Nilesh

>
> Regards,
>
> Italo
>
>
>
>  On 6/30/07, Nilesh Bansal <nil...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Informa jar file does not include java sources. This means that the
> > IDE (eclipse) can not display javadoc comments for Informa library's
> > methods. It is very convenient to have source information the the jar
> > file, and therefore I have done a small change to the build file.
> >
> > Please let me know if you believe that including sources in the jar is
> > not a good idea, in which case we can revert the change.
> >
> > Index: build.xml
> >
> ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/informa/informa/build.xml,v
> > retrieving revision 1.69
> > diff -u -p -r1.69 build.xml
> > --- build.xml   6 Jan 2007 22:54:23 -0000       1.69
> > +++ build.xml   30 Jun 2007 20:50:32 -0000
> > @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@
> >        <fileset dir="${build.classes}"
> >                 excludes="log4j.properties, hibernate.properties">
> >        </fileset>
> > +      <fileset dir="${src.dir}" />
> >      </jar>
> >    </target>
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > Nilesh
> >
> >
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