[JBoss-dev] Re: Version numbers in library filenames - Bad

I've seen a few cases where in repository.jboss.com the version number for a library is included in the library filename, E.g. antlr-2.7.6.jar addressing-1.0.jar odmg-3.0.jar quartz-all-1.5.2.jar dtdparser121.jar commons-lang-2.1.jar myfaces-impl-1.1.3.jar Even worse: Cglib/2.1.0/lib/cglib.jar, cglib-2.1.1.jar This is wrong, because - whenever a library is updated we have to correct all explicit references to it - If you don't wipe your thirdparty on every update you may end up with 3 different versions of the same library and wonder for hours what's wrong. The version is encoded in the path and the library's META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, not the filename, e.g: apache-logging/1.0.3/lib/commons-logging.jar For existing libs the harm is already done, but for new library additions to repository.jboss.com, please have that in mind and remove any version number from the filenames. Thanks /Dimitris