[JBoss-dev] Re: Library dependencies/updates for jboss-4.0.5.GA

[Scott M Stark]

What api are you talking about being broken? The dom4j uses will be 
supported by deploying dom4j in the server lib. Neither the deployment 
or console module uses need to be changed because these are not in the 
server bootstrap classpath. Its a fair question as to whether jarjar is 
worthwhile vs converting the few uses to use the bundled jdk apis.

Adrian Brock wrote:
> The only reason JBossMX uses dom4j is for the XMBean.
>
> If you switch to the jarjared version then this api
> is broken for existing users.
>
> If you are going to change the api to remove the dependency, 
> I'd rather see it changed to org.w3c.dom.*
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 08:43 -0500, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>   
>>  With a quick search I've found org.dom4j usage in the
>>
>> A) jmx module (DescriptorSupport, JBossXMBean10, XMLMetadata, XMBean)
>> B) deployment module (DeploymentMetadata, DeploymentManagerImpl)
>> C) console module (XMLToHTMLTreeBuilder)
>>
>> D) build (VersionRelease) - not realy an issue
>>
>> Should I switch all to use org.jboss.dom4j and bundle with
>> jboss-jmx.jar?
>>
>> Or
>>
>> Switch the jmx module, bundle with jboss-jmx.jar and, include the
>> original dom4j.jar in server/lib for the others (including end-user code
>> that depends on dom4j).
>>
>> But then, our jarjar'ed version would have to be in a different place in
>> the repository (can't have 2 versions of the same thing), like
>> repository.jboss.com/jboss/dom4j/1.6.1.jarjar
>>
>>