Re: Shipping fat jar?

From: Michael Gentry (blacknex..mail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 08:38:29 EST

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    I'm currently only using the fat jar for development and for
    deployment for pre-3.0. If it makes sense for 3.0 to abandon it, I'd
    survive. It is just much simpler (OK, lazier) to only have one jar,
    but sometimes you need finer-grained control.

    /dev/mrg

    On 1/2/07, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    > I am considering whether we should stop shipping the "fat"
    > cayenne.jar in 3.0 (would've been called cayenne-server-deps.jar
    > according to the new naming convention). The original motivation for
    > it goes back to the days when full CLASSPATH had to be specified when
    > running "javac" and "java" from command line. So it saved quite a bit
    > of typing. With Ant, Eclipse and war format this seems obsolete.
    > Instead I thought we might include a minimal set of runtime
    > dependencies in the "lib/third-party" folder.
    >
    > Anybody thinks it is a bad idea to get rid of the fat jar?
    >
    > Andrus
    >



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