Re: [ebxmlms-develop] Maven build

[Jason v. Z. <ja...@ze...>]

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:01, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could you please check in these files that will allow people to build
> Hermes with Maven?
> 

A perfect example of what the Maven project.xml file may be useful for
is to find out what versions of the libraries you are using. I know that
you include the libraries for compiling with Ant in your distribution
but I am currently trying to integrate Hermes in an application server
with 50 other JARs and I need to align versions of libraries to make
things work.

Note that SUN is notorious for making awfully packed JARs. For example
the manifest in the saaj-api.jar:
---
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Created-By: Ant 1.4alpha
---

So I have no easy way to tell what version of some utilities you are
using which makes integration difficult. The maven project.xml file is
an easy place to store this and you can generate copious amounts of
documentation based on it. For example you get something like this:

http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/dependencies.html

Which is a simple way to show your users what version of libraries you
are using.

Also note that, strictly speaking, you are in violation of SUN's binary
distribution license by having the Java Activation Framework JAR in your
CVS repository. You're allowed to distribute it, but technically you are
not allowed to have it in CVS. SUN generally doesn't go after anyone,
Apache did it for years :-) Just FYI if you didn't already know.


-- 
jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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http://tambora.zenplex.org

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