[seam-dev] Removing the combined jar

[John D. Ament]

-1

In my opinion the combined jar helps keep the number of JAR files down in
deployments.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
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> -Dan
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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 00:12, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 17:32, Shane Bryzak <sbryzak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We discussed this briefly on IRC, however I thought we should discuss it
>>> on seam-dev before we make any concrete decision.  To summarise the plan:
>>>
>>> 1. Remove the combined jar file from each of the modules
>>> 2. If the module has a single implementation, rename it to whatever the
>>> combined jar was called.
>>>     E.g. for Seam Catch, the impl module would be called seam-catch.
>>> 3. If the module has multiple implementations, then add a suffix to the
>>> artifact name that reflects the individual implementation.
>>>     E.g. Seam Reports has two implementations, which would be called
>>> seam-reports-jasper (for Jasper reports) and seam-reports-pentaho (for
>>> Pentaho).
>>> 4. Leave the API naming as it is, e.g. seam-reports-api.
>>>
>>> The idea is that by importing the simplified module artifact name (i.e.
>>> "seam-xxx") you would get the default implementation, which in turn
>>> depends on the API.  The advantage of this is that we won't break
>>> backwards compatibility - e.g. someone currently declaring a dependency
>>> on "seam-catch" in their pom file won't have their app broken when we
>>> rename the modules.  Also we remove the complexity introduced by having
>>> a combined jar in the first place.
>>>
>>> If you can spot any issues with this, please speak up now ;)
>>>
>>> Shane
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