Which JARS do we really need for a seam application?

[toni]

Hi,

I have noticed for a while that the "jboss-seam-1.2.1.GA/lib/" directory contains many more jars besides those, which gets created during the build process, which are:

jboss-seam-debug.jar
jboss-seam-gen.jar
jboss-seam-ioc.jar
jboss-seam.jar
jboss-seam-mail.jar
jboss-seam-pdf.jar
jboss-seam-remoting.jar
jboss-seam-ui.jar

If we want to use all the functionality currently available (ajax, richfaces, PDF, facelets and so on..), then which of those jars should be included:

activation.jar
ajax4jsf-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar - DO WE NEED THIS TO USE AJAX4JSF?
ant-antlr-1.6.5.jar
ant.jar
ant-launcher.jar
antlr-2.7.6.jar
ant-nodeps.jar
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-codec-1.3.jar
commons-collections-3.1.jar
commons-digester-1.6.jar
commons-el-1.0.jar
commons-lang-2.1.jar
el-api.jar - WHAT ARE THOSE FOR?
el-ri.jar - WHAT ARE THOSE FOR?
hibernate-all.jar
itext-2.0.1.jar - DO WE NEED THIS FOR PDF FUNCTIONALITY?
javax.servlet.jsp.jar
jboss-aop-jdk50.jar
jboss-cache-jdk50.jar
jboss-ejb3-all.jar
jbpm-3.1.4.jar
jcaptcha-all-1.0-RC4.jar
jgroups.jar
jsf-facelets.jar - NEEDED?
jstl-1.1.0.jar - NEEDED?
mail.jar
mail-ra.jar
myfaces-api-1.1.4.jar - NEEDED?
myfaces-impl-1.1.4.jar - NEEDED?
oscache-2.3.2.jar
portlet-api-lib.jar
richfaces-3.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar - NEEDED FOR RICH FACES?
servlet-api.jar
spring.jar
testng-4.5.1-jdk15.jar
thirdparty-all.jar

The readme.txt file says that :

This directory contains all jars needed to compile Seam
and run the unit tests.

However, some of the jars I needed for my webapplication, like the el-* ones.

The only jars required to run Seam in a full Java EE 5
environment are:

jbpm-3.1.1.jar
thirdparty-all.jar

And does that mean that we need those for JBoss too, or are you refering to other Java EE 5 environment/application servers?!

[pmuir]

build a skeleton project using seam-gen, deploy the ear, and take a look at what jars are included :) it does change as we upgrade to new versions of libraries.... generally you need far fewer to deploy than build!

[asavitsky]

To answer your questions about specific JARs you listed...

ajax4jsf-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar - DO WE NEED THIS TO USE AJAX4JSF? Required for Ajax4Jsf, along with oscache JAR. Also RichFaces need these, too

el-api.jar - WHAT ARE THOSE FOR?
el-ri.jar - WHAT ARE THOSE FOR? Both are part of JSF implementation (either RI or MyFaces) and are required.

itext-2.0.1.jar - DO WE NEED THIS FOR PDF FUNCTIONALITY? Yes

jsf-facelets.jar - NEEDED? Yes, if you use Facelets

jstl-1.1.0.jar - NEEDED? Might be, if you use JSPs with JSF. If you use Facelets, this JAR is not required

myfaces-api-1.1.4.jar - NEEDED?
myfaces-impl-1.1.4.jar - NEEDED? Yes, but only if you use MyFaces JSF implementation. Not needed if you use RI

richfaces-3.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar - NEEDED FOR RICH FACES? Yes

Also, some other JARs you listed are only needed for specific environments/tasks, such as Portlet JAR or JCaptcha

HTH,

Alex