[jboss-dev] Why no commons-codec in AS5?

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Those 3 libraries were in JBOSS_HOME/lib for webdav support, yes.

I recall something was using httpclient to need to have it in common/lib, don't remember 
what it was though.

Scott Stark wrote:
> It definitely is the old netboot stuff that is introducing 
> commons-httpclient.jar:
> 
>      // If the home URL begins with http add the webav and httpclient jars
>      if( homeURL.getProtocol().startsWith("http") == true )
>      {
>         this.addLibrary("webdavlib.jar");
>         this.addLibrary("commons-httpclient.jar");
>         this.addLibrary("commons-logging.jar");
>      }
> 
> We should just remove commons-httpclient.jar from the common/lib
> 
> Stan Silvert wrote:
>> Was this just an oversight or was there some specific reason it was 
>> not included?  commons-httpclient.jar is in commons/lib and it depends 
>> on commons-codec.
>>
>> The problem I'm having is that the RichFaces demo has:
>> <jboss-web>
>>    <class-loading>
>>        <loader-repository>
>>            
>> org.richfaces.samples.richfaces-demo:loader=richfaces-demo-jee5.war
>>            
>> <loader-repository-config>java2ParentDelegation=true</loader-repository-config> 
>>
>>        </loader-repository>
>>    </class-loading>
>> </jboss-web>
>>
>> It includes commons-httpclient and commons-codec in WEB-INF/lib.  
>> Since parent delegation is true it will use commons-httpclient from 
>> commons/lib and then fail because it can't find commons-codec.
>>
>> So there are two ways to fix it.  Either remove commons-httpclient 
>> from commons/lib or add commons-codec.
>>
>> Who is depending on commons-httpclient and how would I know this so I 
>> would know who to ask?
>>
>> Stan
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