Can you give an example of how you would bundle the JARs? (Just put them in /META-INF/dependencies/ ... ?) And would that not cause just as many class conflicts? If you shade/relocate then the deps *should be* completely isolated.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen@redhat.com> wrote:

well, recommending just bundling jars would be a better approach than shading IMO.

/max

On Apr 11, 2011, at 16:00, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:

> Yeah, shading is currently the recommended approach. Conflicts should be avoided by using relocations. I know this is... not a great method, but for now it's all we've got. Open to suggestions.
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> ~Lincoln
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> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen@redhat.com> wrote:
> Heya,
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> Lincoln, I just saw your commits to hibernattools plugin at (https://github.com/forge/plugin-hibernate-tools/commit/8b208b4a8e79dbb8a01d10d266ee81afd2cf7106)
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> Is shading of jars really the recommended approach for plugins in Forge ?
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> How are you going to share/avoid collisions of libraries across plugins if they need to bundle via shading ?
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