[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-1532) include jar-versions.xml file

[Dan Allen (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1532?page=comments#action_12379450 ] 
            
Dan Allen commented on JBSEAM-1532:
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That will work perfectly. This issue is just about communication. We want to let people know what Seam uses. Since Maven 2 is designed to give that report, we have a winner.

I just want to clarify that this issue is important for various Sarbanes-Oxley related reasons. System administrators need to know what libraries and one versions are used without having to extract jar files and reverse engineer. The initiative to integrate Maven 2 dependencies was a very important to satisfy this need.

Add the Ant target and we can close off this issue.

> include jar-versions.xml file
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>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-1532
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1532
>             Project: JBoss Seam
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Documentation
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.0.ALPHA
>         Environment: seam CVS HEAD
>            Reporter: Dan Allen
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 4 hours
>  Remaining Estimate: 4 hours
>
> It would be so helpful if a jar-versions.xml file could be kept up to date in the root of the seam source code to track the versions of the bundle libraries, in the absence of other solutions.  This idea comes from the JBoss AS, which uses this file to communicate the versions of libraries used.
> Documenting the versions helps:
> 1. developers, who may find challenge in combining APIs of libraries without knowing the version
> 2. users who are unable to determine the contents of what they downloaded
> 3. for legal reasons, just in case there are differences in licenses amongst releases of third party products, to protect seam itself as well as integrators of seam.
> With all that said, the better solution is to use ant-ivy or maven2 to get the jar files out of the source code.  But I digress.

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