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.
>
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