[jbosscache-dev] Jarring jars

[Galder Zamarreno]

Btw, just tried this approach for the cache migration stuff.

In case someone has a go, it's:

<jar jarfile="UberJar.jar">
      <zipfileset src="jar1.jar" />
      <zipfileset src="jar2.jar" />
      ...
</jar>

instead of

<jar jarfile="UberJar.jar">
     <zipfileset file="jar1.jar" />
     <zipfileset file="jar2.jar" />
     ...
</jar>


Manik Surtani wrote:
> The list of jars JBoss Cache ships with is growing.  And this is, as you 
> can imagine, a PITA.
> 
> * Core libs - commons-logging, jgroups, concurrent (needed by JGroups < 
> 2.5), jboss-serialization, jboss-common-core
> * Pojocache libs - trove, jboss-aop, javassist, microcontainer jars (4 
> jars here!!)
> * JDK1.4-compat distro: 4 extra jars here
> * Optional jars: c3p0 (DB connection pooling for standalone use), bdbje 
> and jdbm for specific cache loaders.
> 
> Looking at how Bill's packaged libs up for embedded EJB, he's got an ant 
> task that jars up all the jars into a single file.
> 
> <jar jarfile="UberJar.jar">
>     <zipfileset file="jar1.jar" />
>     <zipfileset file="jar2.jar" />
>     ...
> </jar>
> 
> What do you think?  This way the JBoss Cache distro can ship with a 
> minimal number of jars:
> 
> * Core: jboss-cache.jar, jboss-cache-deps.jar
> * PojoCache: jboss-cache.jar, jboss-cache-deps.jar, pojo-cache-deps.jar
> * JDK1.4-compat: jboss-cache.jar, jboss-cache-deps-JDK14.jar
> * Optional jars
> 
> What do you guys think of this approach?  It may mean a replication of 
> jars (you may already have commons-logging or jboss-serialization in 
> your libs) but these jars are small and not a huge impact on size.  What 
> about wanting to swap out jars, e.g., JGroups?
> 
> Thoughts?
> -- 
> Manik Surtani
> 
> Lead, JBoss Cache
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
> 
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-- 
Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat