[infinispan-dev] Uber Jars

Dear all, on Thursday I issued a PR [1] to introduce Uber Jars, i.e. single jars which wrap our multitude of jars and some of the transitive dependencies, but it was (rightly) pointed out that we should have a little discussion here first. Firstly, I'm using the maven shade plugin which repackages multiple jars into one with: - automatic transitive resolution - the ability to include/exclude certain jars - move classes if necessary to other packages to avoid conflicts - rewrite the POM with the new dependencies. Here is my global strategy: - define a set of uber-jars (see below) - include all non-optional dependencies in each uber-jar except for the specification Jars (e.g. javax.transaction and javax.persistence) - rename some internal-only dependencies to avoid conflicts - uber jars MUST NOT inherit from infinispan-parent (too much cruft in there) but only from infinispan-bom. The Uber Jars - infinispan-embedded-all (infinispan-commons, infinispan-core, jgroups, jboss-marshalling-osgi, jboss-logging, infinispan-cachestore-jdbc, infinispan-cachestore-jpa, infinispan-cachestore-leveldb) - infinispan-remote-all (infinispan-commons, infinispan-client-hotrod, commons-pool, jboss-marshalling-osgi, jboss-logging, infinispan-remote-query-client, infinispan-query-dsl, infinispan-protostream, protobuf-java) - infinispan-query-all (infinispan-query, infinispan-query-dsl, hibernate-hql-parser, antlr, stringtemplate, hibernate-hql-lucene, hibernate-search-engine, infinispan-lucene-v4, hibernate-search-analyzers, lucene*, solr*, avro, jackson-core, jackson-mapper, paranamer, apache-compress, infinispan-lucene-directory, hibernate-search-infinispan, hibernate-commons-annotations). This package will depend on infinispan-embedded-all and we should only make a Lucene v4 version). Discuss :) Tristan [1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/2589