Re: [Resteasy-developers] Proposed Project Restructuring

[Ryan J. M. <ry...@da...>]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Bill Burke wrote:

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> Ryan J. McDonough wrote:
>> Looking at some of the threads on this list regarding the client  
>> API, I think maybe a good time to alter the project layout  
>> slightly. What I'd like to propose is the following:
>>    * Separate out the client code into a new sub-project called
>>      resteasy-client
>>    * Move code that is shared between the server API and client API
>>      into resteasy-common.
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> You don't think this project is too small for so many separate  
> projects/jars?  The client API is actually only a few classes  
> compared to the server-side stuff.  I don't know...  If Olivier is  
> going to do the Android stuff, then he probably wants things as  
> small as possible.
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> We should probably move the client stuff to a different packaging  
> format as well:
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> org.jboss.resteasy.client
> org.jboss.resteasy.client.spi
> org.jboss.resteasy.client.httpclient
> org.jboss.resteasy.client.android

+1 here, I think this will be more flexible too.

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>>    * Remove distribution project and moving the distribution details
>>      into the root pom.xml.
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> If you have a better way +1.  I had problems putting distribution  
> info within pom.xml.  Would also be very cool if you could figure  
> out how I can generate javadocs to go in the distribution.  Now I  
> have to do multiple steps.

Yep, I've done this a few times.
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>>    * Rename "jboss-integration-testing" to "integrations" and have it
>>      associated with the root pom.xml
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> I don't want integration testing running with the root pom.  Most of  
> the time, I have no need to run JBoss unit tests.

Yeah, that would be a pain in arse. Any thoughts/preferences on the  
rename?

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>>    * Refactor the package name from org.resteasy to  
>> org.jboss.resteasy.
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> +1 on package rename.  This is very easy in Intellij so I'll get to  
> this.

Cool. I you're going to get that, I'll get the structure prepared so  
it'll be ready for the refactoring.
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> Bill
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