[jbosstools-dev] reusage of libraries

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:27:23 +0100, Koen Aers <koen.aers at jboss.com> wrote:

>> 1) put them in a org.jboss.tools prefixed plugin (e.g. org.jboss.tools.org.dom4j) and
>> share that.
>
> I am in favour of doing this actually. But I started to work my way
> around the dom4j dependency by using JAXP. Yes I know, JAXP is a PITA
> but if it makes this nasty dependency go away that is an advantage.

JAXP ? sounds crazy ;)

In any case it won't go away from jbosstools as long as hibernate is using dom4j...

>> 2) keep doing what we do now which is simple.
>
> It is simple, but you end up with an unmanageable hidden dependency
> tree. I use dom4j version 1.4, you use 1.6 and still another guy uses
> 1.6.1. Not that much of a problem, but it is not very clean.

gawd - I completely ignored that one..it must be the vacation.

Yes - that is something that makes it sensible to change them to "proper" plugins.

/max