Re: [jboss-as7-dev] JAF (javax.activation) dependency removal

On 12-02-15 10:58 AM, Tomaz Cerar wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing this as there has been some discussion on internal mailing > list and David has pointed out that it should be discussed publicly. > > JAF is part of JDK since version 6, so question is if we should remove > javax.activation dependency and javax.activation module from AS? > There are still some other dependencies(mail,javax.bind,xml > registry,...) that still use activation as its dependency. > I have verified that AS work correctly if javax.activation module is > removed and some other configuration changes applied so question is if > we want to this or not? > > As David pointed out on my pull request > https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/pull/1527#issuecomment-3973535 this > ties us more to JDK and prevents us from doing any local modification to > activation.jar. A question: for our modified activation to take over, it would need to be in endorsed dir, right?