Re: [Springframework-developer] Another Spring positive reference.....

[William G. T. Jr. <wg...@ru...>]

FYI.  In reference to the dependency manager...it seems like Maven has 
been making good progress.  I recently downloaded Pluto (RI Portlet 
Container) and the "maven fullDeployment" command snarfed all the 
dependant jars down for me...very nice.

Kopylenko, Dmitry wrote:

> <quote>
> Agree - especially with packages like collections and beanutils being so 
> standard, it creates a lot of resistance to pulling down a project and 
> giving it a quick trial run. I appreciate the _Spring approach_ 
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73357> - one 
> version with all dependencies and one without. At the very least, it 
> would be useful if projects released with a list of URLs for the JARs 
> (either online or in the installation notes).
> 
> Still, it makes me wonder if there's a need for a project like the linux 
> dependency managers, which would go and fetch all the jars you need. 
> That would make a sweet Ant task. I haven't seen anything like that, 
> though I recall the perl CPAN module can handle it. The problem is 
> there's no protocol for specifying version dependencies in JAR files.
> 
> </quote>
> 
> from TSS thread: 
> _http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.jsp?thread_id=23544_
> 
> Regards,
> Dmitriy.
>