Re: [Resteasy-developers] Providers and Future Bloat

[Bill B. <bb...@re...>]

Maybe a separate download/distro for optional providers?

Ryan J. McDonough wrote:
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> I had a few more ideas for some other provider types and I realized  
> that if we're not carful about, we could get fat really quickly.  
> Here's a few provider ideas that Bill and I tossed around on this list:
> 
> POI provider
> SVG Provider
> PGP/GPG Provider
> 
> Given these 3 alone, we now have dependencies on the following projects:
> 
> Jakarta POI
> Apache Batik
> Bouncy Castle or other PGP api
> 
> It got me thinking: should we have an optional provider module(s)?  
> Personally, I don't care. I think we've have the value-add of tons of  
> kick-ass providers with no fuss, it wouldn't matter. But you know  
> inevitably, there'd be a TSS article or collection of blog posts about  
> how bloated RESTEasy is so bloated, yada yada yada. Does anyone else  
> think this is a potential issue that we may want to address sooner  
> than later?
> 
> Ryan-
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