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

[Alastair R. <ala...@ph...>]

AFAIK, with Maven the developer still has to list all the dependencies =
in the POM (Maven's project object model). I think the Maven team have =
plans to improve this so that in effect each library will be distributed =
with a structured description of its dependencies, so that when you want =
to use the lib all of its dependencies are automatically discovered and =
downloaded (and all their dependencies too... etc), and are then also =
included in your app. Sounds great, though I think it's tentatively =
scheduled for the 1.1 release, so it's still some way off.=20


> -----Original Message-----
> From: spr...@li...=20
> [mailto:spr...@li...]
>  On Behalf Of William G. Thompson, Jr.
> Sent: 28 January 2004 16:04
> To: spr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Another Spring=20
> positive reference.....
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> FYI.  In reference to the dependency manager...it seems like=20
> Maven has=20
> been making good progress.  I recently downloaded Pluto (RI Portlet=20
> Container) and the "maven fullDeployment" command snarfed all the=20
> dependant jars down for me...very nice.
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> Kopylenko, Dmitry wrote:
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> > <quote>
> > Agree - especially with packages like collections and=20
> beanutils being=20
> > so
> > standard, it creates a lot of resistance to pulling down a=20
> project and=20
> > giving it a quick trial run. I appreciate the _Spring approach_=20
> > <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D73357> - =
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> > version with all dependencies and one without. At the very=20
> least, it=20
> > would be useful if projects released with a list of URLs=20
> for the JARs=20
> > (either online or in the installation notes).
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> > Still, it makes me wonder if there's a need for a project like the=20
> > linux
> > dependency managers, which would go and fetch all the jars=20
> you need.=20
> > That would make a sweet Ant task. I haven't seen anything=20
> like that,=20
> > though I recall the perl CPAN module can handle it. The problem is=20
> > there's no protocol for specifying version dependencies in=20
> JAR files.
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> > </quote>
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> > from TSS thread:
> > _http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.jsp?thread_id=3D23544_
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> > Regards,
> > Dmitriy.
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