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

[Fernando Nasser]

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?
>
> WDYT?
>
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> tomaz
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