[jboss-dev] jbossall-client.jar now references external libs

[Sacha Labourey]

I agree, this will be a big usability issue. For the sake of making OUR life
easier (patching), we are going to make EVERYBODY's life more difficult,
that's nonsense. If you need a patching mechanism, write a script which will
just do that, but do not impact user usability.

> -----Original Message-----
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> development-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Galder Zamarreno
> Sent: jeudi, 6 novembre 2008 16:48
> To: JBoss.org development list
> Subject: Re: [jboss-dev] jbossall-client.jar now references external
> libs
> 
> Hmmmm, we're gonna have users screaming about this.
> 
> In the past, if you're developing a client app in Eclipse, you only
> needed jbossall-client.jar and log4j.jar but this won't be the case
> with
> AS5 as I've just found out when trying to run a client app against
> trunk. Eclipse for example does not read manifest classpath entries:
> 
> http://forums.bea.com/thread.jspa?threadID=570001075
> 
> I've just talked to Max who confirmed it. I'll let him explain the gory
> details of Eclipse.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> > Yes, they'll need the whole jboss/client dir.
> >
> > Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> >> I'm curious how this affects users (and hence tooling).
> >>
> >> I assume users now instead of having jbossall-client.jar on the
> >> classpath will need to have an exact
> >> copy of client/*.jar etc. when running against jboss ?
> >>
> >> /max
> >>
> >>> Paul changed jbossall-client.jar so now instead of embedding the
> >>> content of the other client
> >>> libraries, it now references them through MANIFEST.MF Class-Path
> entry.
> >>>
> >>> This makes it possible to introduce drop-in replacements for client
> >>> libs, if needed, without
> >>> worrying about jbossall-client.jar
> >>>
> >>> http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4355
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