[jbosstools-dev] Libmanagement issues

[Dmitry Geraskov]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
>> I find the solution which Dali uses for libmanagement on project 
>> creation step.
>> They have composite which allows to user to add libraries when he 
>> create project.
> JSF has it to, it is what Snjezana uses for some of the Maven 
> integration we have.
> afaik, she enabled that for Seam already. Something we need to see how 
> we get it applied to as
> much as possible elsewhere too.
>
> Just to be precise, we should *not* be using user defined libraries 
> (UDL) or come up with out own way of getting stuff online though.
> UDL's are not sharable and there exist many (better) defacto ways of 
> getting libraries (i.e. maven, ivy etc.)

I think about this in context of 
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBIDE-772. Not sure it is so 
necessary to have shared libraries for standalone applications. Maven, 
ivy, etc, requires some additional steps and we don't need to obtrude 
the frameworks upon users.

>
> What does make sense is that we enable users to use these defacto 
> methods to decouple the library management from
> the IDE and let it be used outside the IDE too. That is why the Maven 
> integration is so important.
>
> The only place we plan on having IDE specific lib management is for 
> the classpath container of the server runtime -
> that is where "Server provides the runtime" option comes to play. This 
> is what we should and do use for non-maven projects
> and what we use today.
>
> p.s. what is RedHatDevList ? I've added jbosstools-dev too.
RedHatDevList is the name of jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org. In the 
first mail it was inserted as "RedHatDevList" instead of "RedHatDevList 
<jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org>" by mistake and was not send to the others.
>
> /max
>>
>>
>> The libraries could be managed by eclipse's preferences, or could be 
>> downloaded from the internet.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This is standard feature for faceted projects.
>> (see 
>> org.eclipse.jst.common.project.facet.core.libprov.LibraryInstallDelegate, 
>>
>> org.eclipse.jst.common.project.facet.ui.libprov.LibraryProviderFrameworkUi) 
>>
>> ---
>>
>> If we want some *specific* libraries to be added (or we want to help 
>> to user) we could do it like dtp helps with jdbc drivers when you 
>> creates new ConnectionProfile.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this we are looking for libmanagement? 

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Best regards,

 Dmitry Geraskov              
 dgeraskov at exadel.com
 Senior Developer
 Exadel Inc