[jboss-dev] Overlapping APIs jars

There is a bit of overlapping in our API libraries. E.g. for jsp-api.jar we have 2 jars with similar content, one from JBossWeb and one coming from Sun: [INFO] +- jboss.web:jsp-api:jar:2.1.1.GA:compile [INFO] +- javax.servlet.jsp:jsp-api:jar:2.1:compile For the servlet-api.jar we have 3 jars with similar content. One comes from our javaee apis project, one from jboss web and one from Sun. org.jboss.javaee:jboss-javaee.jar also bundles jboss-servlet-api.jar: [INFO] +- org.jboss.javaee:jboss-servlet-api:jar:2.5.0.GA:compile [INFO] +- jboss.web:servlet-api:jar:2.1.1.GA:compile [INFO] +- javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:compile The sun one is referenced by: [INFO] +- org.jboss.seam.integration:jboss-seam-int-jbossas:jar:5.0.0.CR7:compile [INFO] | \- (javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:compile - version managed from 2.4 ... [INFO] +- httpunit:httpunit:jar:1.6:test [INFO] | +- (javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:test - version managed from 2.3 ... [INFO] +- org.jboss.jaxr:juddi-saaj:jar:1.2.1.GA:compile [INFO] | \- (javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:compile - version managed from 2.4 ... [INFO] +- org.jboss.jaxr:juddi-service:jboss-sar:1.2.1.GA:compile [INFO] | \- (javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:compile - version managed from 2.4; Our org.jboss.javaee one by EJB3. What ends up in AS5 is the jsp-api/server-api that comes from JBossWeb. Also the jboss-javaee.jar that duplicates the server api classes. --- So the question is how we want to proceed? I think we should end up with a single copy of the apis. We could either agree to: a) Use the sun provided artifacts. If there are no license problems that would be the easiest solution. Many thirdparty project would be referencing those artifacts, too. b) Centralize the apis in our javaee project. The problem here is that projects like JBossWS, JBossWeb, Hibernate, would have to agree to use only those artifacts, rather than duplicating them, or removing them and importing them into their projects. c) Continue the current mixed solution with projects controling the related APIs, in which case we should at least remove any duplicates, e.g. the jboss-javaee servlet APIs. Thoughts?