[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-6975) Allow Dependencies: header to be empty, don't throw exception or fail deployment startup

[David Lloyd (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6975?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

David Lloyd updated AS7-6975:
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    Assignee:     (was: David Lloyd)

    
> Allow Dependencies: header to be empty, don't throw exception or fail deployment startup
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>                 Key: AS7-6975
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6975
>             Project: Application Server 7
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Class Loading
>         Environment: EAP6.1
>            Reporter: Darryl Miles
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> Exception throw for empty "Dependencies:" header in MANIFEST.MF.
> This is a perfectly well-formed header and should have the same meaning as if the header does not exist.
> By all means emit a warning explaining which JAR the MANIFEST.MF is in, the header name and that the value is an empty string and this is not allow (due to some spec/rule you cite).
> But don't fail a deployment from starting.
> Sometimes headers are not going to be perfect from dependent JARs you have little control over.  You don't want to make the user do extra work of repacking/fixing those JAR just to get them to deploy on JBoss AS.
> If the empty header has a special meaning then I suggest you use a keyword token instead.  Like you do for "export", "services" and "optional".

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