[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-563) Create a class lookup index

[Lincoln Baxter III (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-563?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Lincoln Baxter III reassigned FORGE-563:
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    Assignee: Lincoln Baxter III

    
> Create a class lookup index
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>                 Key: FORGE-563
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-563
>             Project: Forge
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Maven Integration
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.4.Final
>            Reporter: Jason Porter
>            Assignee: Lincoln Baxter III
>             Fix For: 2.0.0.Alpha2
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> We need to support an index of classes and dependencies which contain them. 
> This would allow us to do wildcard expansion, and also allow facets to depend on a class, not a specific dependency. I believe Lincoln has the information about wildcard support, for the facet dependency idea my thoughts are an index like this would allow a facet to declare a class, or collection of classes, which it requires to function. For example the faces facet could depend on FacesContext, or PhaseListener or some other class. When a facet checks to see if a project has the dependencies it could match multiple jars instead one specific jar. Again in the faces example it could match Mojarra, MyFaces, JBoss spec jars, Geromino spec jars, etc.
> We could keep a local cache and add to it, we could also have an online cache available which users could push to and also merge into their local cache.

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