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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

No IDE I've used listened to the manifest.mf to fetch in additional jars  
for the classpath.

Do you know of anyone ? then I would like to know about it so I can use  
that as an argument when dealing with Eclipse JDT.

That being said we could write a classpath container for Eclipse that will  
automatically pick up the
jars listed in a manifest.mf. The problem is just that what shold eclipse  
do if one of those jars is actually one of the
projects you have as a dependency in eclipse - that would create an issue  
with respect to which dependency (the jar or the project)
should we use.

/max

> What does eclipse need then, bundle manifest headers? Ship a ant  
> script/java class that lets the user make an uber jar from the manifest  
> classpath.
>
> Sacha Labourey wrote:
>> 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-----
>>> From: jboss-development-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:jboss-
>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>
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/max