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

[Anil Saldhana]

We need to take a second look at all the 3rd party dependencies and 
their versions in the AS. 

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<dependency>
        <groupId>apache-velocity</groupId>
        <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
        <version>1.4jboss</version>
      </dependency>
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There are API changes in 1.5 version of velocity.  We are using a 
patched version of velocity,  OSS projects
that depend on velocity will use 1.5+
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6404

Scott Stark wrote:
>
> If I look just at the eclipse project .classpaths, only varia and 
> testsuite reference commons-http.
>
> [655][valkyrie: Branch_5_0]$ find . -name .classpath -exec grep -l 
> commons-http {} \;
> ./testsuite/.classpath
> ./varia/.classpath
>
> The varia reference is old netboot stuff. Some thirdparty jar like 
> remoting still may need it though.
>
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> 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