Re: [Opensmus-users] Further usage of 3rd party libraries - Apache commons, Spring, ..

[Mauricio P. <mau...@ta...>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Oskar Lindmayr <j.m...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was a little bit surprised, when I first looked at the list of dependencies of OpenSMUS. Only hsqldb!
>
> Are there any reasons why OpenSMUS doesn't use popular 3rd party libraries, like Apache Commons, Spring, and so on?
>
> Why not use Apache Commons Logging and Log4J for Logging? And use Apache Commons Lang and Net for whatever.
> And finally I think using Spring would improve OpenSMUS, too.
>
> Please comment on this.

Remember that OpenSMUS was first created as a commercial product, in
2000. And the design decision was to make it capable of run on any
system with only Java 1.1. So it predates most of these libraries.
I do not want to add unnecessary dependancies as well, unless they:

a) Add substantial functionality (like Netty)
b) Do not add any burden to the person deploying the server (it is ok
to require for example a .jar file, but not a fully-fledged java
application server, for example)

So, I think it has to be analyzed case-by-case. Do you have anything
specific in mind?

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini