[jboss-dev] My logging ultimatum

[Jason T. Greene]

Bela Ban wrote:
> Why don't we do this for JBossCache and PojoCache (with quite some deps) 
> already ?

We could look at it. There are 2 disadvantages to doing it:

1) License compatibility (have to make sure deps have compatible licenses)
2) A fatter jar

> Because the embeded JARs might conflict with the user's copies 
> (different versions) ?

It solves this by doing package translation. For example org.apache.foo 
becomes org.jgroups.thirdparty.foo.

> BTW: I'm really looking forward to Java 7's java feature which let's you 
> list directories with JARs, rather than the  individual JARs

Amen. Something that should have been there long ago.

> 
> Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> Bela Ban wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>> The fact is, zero JARs is better than one, no matter how small it is.
>>>
>>> +1000. I hope to ship only jgroups.jar some day. And I hope that day 
>>> will come before I retire... :-)
>>>
>>
>> Having one jar is awesome. You can do that today though, even with deps!
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/jarjar/
>>
> 


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Jason T. Greene
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