Jandex indices for 3rd party JARs

[pmm]

It's not uncommon for applications to contain a lot (100+) 3rd party JARs. While it's easy to add an index to your own JARs using jandex-maven-plugin AFAIK there's to my knowledge now way to do this for 3rd party JARs. Is this true? Are there any plans for changing this like adding the ability to add indices for 3rd party JARs somewhere in META-INF/ for WARs an EARs.

[ctomc]

Hi,

you can do that without any "big" problems

you can use

• ant task
• command line java -jar jandex.jar --help

all of those will enable to add jandex to any 3rd party jars you have

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tomaz

[pmm]

I don't really like to modify 3rd party JARs. It destroys checksums and in the worst case the JARs are signed. Also Maven doesn't make this easy, I would have to run between the prepare-package and package phase. Ok, you could argue this is Mavens fault

[ctomc]

hi,

you do not need to modify jars, you can have index in seprate jar, as long it is in same module.

for example take a look how org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jaxrs is done.

it has jandex index jars in same module.

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tomaz

[pmm]

Well that fixes it then, thanks.

[santos.sandro]

Why must I need an index to my jars ?

Isn't enough manifest and deployment descriptors ?

[pmm]

Sebastiao Santos schrieb:

Why must I need an index to my jars ?

Isn't enough manifest and deployment descriptors ?

You don't have to. But it speeds up deployment/scanning for classes.

[santos.sandro]

Wow, I will try this.

Thanks.