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

[Paul Gier]

It's in the client directory.  And it's in the maven snapshot repository:
http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/jbossas/jboss-as-client/5.0.0-SNAPSHOT/

Galder Zamarreno wrote:
> Where is this client pom?
> 
> Paul Gier wrote:
>> I added a new client pom if anyone wants to try it.  There are still 
>> some things I need to work out, because a few of the jars were not 
>> available in the maven repo and it's including a lot of trasitive jars 
>> that probably need to be excluded.
>>
>> Paul Gier wrote:
>>> Since there seems to be a lot of demand for this, I'm going to create 
>>> a new directory in the app server called "client".  And this will 
>>> contain a pom that lists all the jars that are currently in the 
>>> all-client jar manifest.
>>>
>>> This will be deployed to our repository with the release, so it 
>>> should be usable from maven or ivy.
>>>
>>> Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>> This is what should be done; have a proper managed repository of jars
>>>> that is usable from both Maven and Ivy. Then *a lot* of issues from a
>>>> tooling perspective would be way easier to solve.
>>>>
>>>> /max
>>>>
>>>>> If we produced a proper jbossall-client artifact in the maven
>>>>> repository, i.e. one that specified all its dependencies (the other
>>>>> client jars).
>>>>> http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/jboss/client/jbossall-client/5.0.0.Beta4/jbossall-client-5.0.0.Beta4.pom 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NOTE: The one above comes from before the change to use the manifest.
>>>>>
>>>>> At least people using maven could create their .classpath correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another option would be to include a dummy eclipse project
>>>>> in the distribution that people could import into their project.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:28 -0600, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>>>> Are there mechanisms which Eclipse *will* read?  Like OSGi 
>>>>>> descriptors or
>>>>>> something like that?  Do we have an Eclipse plugin for
>>>>>> jboss-classloading.xml support yet? :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - DML
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/06/2008 09:56 AM, 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,
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> 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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