[jboss-dev] jaxen in AS

[Thomas Diesler]

of course

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 18:37 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Alejandro Guizar wrote:
> > dom4j also uses jaxen to provide xpath features. Don't know if any other 
> > component in AS uses xpath, tough.
> > 
> > Re: declaring dependencies, how far a component should go? jbpm-bpel 
> > uses hibernate. In turn, hibernate uses cglib (among other stuff). 
> > jbpm-bpel does not use cglib directly, but will not run if cglib is not 
> > present. Should jbpm-bpel declare cglib?
> > 
> 
> What I think Thomas is suggesting is that jbpm-bpel declare hibernate 
> and hibernate declare cglib.
> 
> This is how it works in the RPM world by the way.
> 
> Fernando
> 
> 
> > -Alejandro
> > 
> > Steve Ebersole wrote:
> >> jdom also has a dependency on jaxen, although it depends on which 
> >> features of jdom you use (specifically jdom uses jaxen for xpath 
> >> stuff, although its a weird inter-dependency thing from what i 
> >> recall).  Anyway, Hibernate requires jdom; however, Hibernate itself 
> >> does not use any of the jaxen-related capabilities of jdom and thus 
> >> does not require jaxen be present on the classpath for its own use...
> >>
> >> Thomas Diesler wrote:
> >>> I see that jaxen.jar is not included in AS50. Therefore the current
> >>> jbpem-bpel.sar (1.1.0-Beta4) which also does not include jaxen anymore
> >>> but depends on it does not run in AS50
> >>>
> >>> What other component uses jaxen? If there is none, then jbpem-bpel.sar
> >>> should include jaxen.jar
> >>>
> >>> More generally, I suggest we radically remove all thirdparty jars that
> >>> are not referenced from component-info.xml and make it a requirement
> >>> that a component declares its dependencies. This should avoid the
> >>> problem of carrying over stale thirdparty jars that nobody knows what
> >>> they are used for.
> >>>
> >>> In other words, to answer the question: What component uses jar X? I
> >>> only need to scan the component-info.xml(s) for X
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>> -thomas
> >>>
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