1 Reply Latest reply on Mar 8, 2008 5:48 AM by adrian.brock

    Maven and Eclipse (Transitive) Dependencies

      EXPORTED DEPENDENCIES

      I've been through all the projects and fixed up all the dependncies
      such that we are not exporting stupid things during the compile.

      NOTE: Some of these really need fixing in the original project.
      i.e. making them optional
      Others are because the projects are using older versions

      Examples are

      common-core

       <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>
       <version>2.2.3.GA</version>
       <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-logging-spi</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>apache-httpclient</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>apache-slide</groupId>
       <artifactId>webdavlib</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>apache-xerces</groupId>
       <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
       </dependency>
      


      jboss-test - also made optional:
       <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-test</artifactId>
       <optional>true</optional>
       <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-logging-spi</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-logging-log4j</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>ant</groupId>
       <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>ant</groupId>
       <artifactId>ant-junit</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>log4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
       </dependency>
      


      aop
       <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.aop</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-aop</artifactId>
       <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>ant</groupId>
       <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>apache-xerces</groupId>
       <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>javassist</groupId>
       <artifactId>javassist</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-logging-spi</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>jboss</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-common-logging-log4j</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>org.jboss.microcontainer</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-container</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       <exclusion>
       <groupId>org.jboss.microcontainer</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-dependency</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
       </dependency>
      


      TODO: I've done this for the test compilation.
      I'm still seeing things like xerces-2.7.1 leeking in via jboss-test?
      in some places instead of 2.9.1 defined by JBossXB (see below).

      TRANSITIVE DEPENDENCIES

      Additionally I've allowed more transitive dependencies.
      i.e. I don't put common-core commons-logging in every project,
      I just let it transitively depend on an earlier project

      I've done the same thing for eclipse's .classpath files
      by making earlier projects use export="true" so it reduces
      the number of places to make a version change.

      EXTERNAL TRANSITIVE DEPDNENCIES

      Finally, in some cases I allow external projects to define the version.
      This makes sense in limited cases where that project is the core user
      of that artificat.
      e.g. I just let jbossxb define the xerces-impl, stax, jaxb versions to use
      e.g.2. I let aop define trove and qdox (I think qdox should be optional in aop?)

      We could also do some others?
      e.g. jboss-common-core defines common-jboss-logging-spi?
      e.g.2. jboss-test defines junit?

      In other cases it is more difficult.
      e.g. jboss-common-core and javassist are entering as dependencies
      from multiple paths so we have to explicitly define them multiple times
      at the entry points to get a consistent version

      Taking jboss-common-core as the example, it enters in our depdendency tree
      by a number of roots (which get excluded) and in practice we have to
      define it mulitple times in dependency, classloader, deployers-core-spi

        • 1. Re: Maven and Eclipse (Transitive) Dependencies

          On a related issue, we could perhaps look at making the jbossxb dependency
          of the kernel project "optional".

          It isn't a requirement to use xml parsing to deploy beans in the Microcontainer. ;-)

          Similarly, the metatype/managed projects could have an optional dependency
          on jboss-reflect, because it is only if you are using the factories/builders
          that you need the refection support.
          You can just construct the types/values/managed objects by hand if you want.