[rules-users] 5.1.1 import com.sun.tools.xjc

Mark Proctor mproctor at codehaus.org
Thu Sep 30 12:47:18 EDT 2010


  On 30/09/2010 16:19, Barry Kaplan wrote:
> It seems that KnowledgeBuilderFactory in api now has a dependency on these
> sun packages. However the pom declares them as "provided". This seems to
> imply that drools will only be run in some kind of app-server?? I had to
> manually add a bunch of dependencies just to get my drools app to compile.
> What is the rational behind this?
I think the rational was more to make it easy to work with JAXB, in 
theory if you aren't using JAXB you shouldn't need the dependency. If 
that's not working, we might have to look into an alternative way to add 
in the abstraction.

Mark
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