Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-cocoon-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 48347 invoked by uid 500); 16 Aug 2002 10:14:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 48336 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2002 10:14:57 -0000 Message-ID: <3D5CD0D9.4060405@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:15:53 +0200 From: Gerhard Froehlich User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: [vote]: Using excalibur subproject jars References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Some time ago, the excalibur project has split up their distribution > of components into several subprojects. We use some of them (for > example the component, xmlutil, store subproject etc.). > > Each of these subprojects creates its own library - the full > avalon-excalibur.jar > is only there for compatibility. > > I would suggest that we skip to all these nice little jars > and remove the big avalon-excalibur.jar. > > The advantages: > - We only include those subprojects we need > - We minimize the build problems with excalibur > - Updating for example to a new store implementation, requires only > updating this subproject and not everything > - The JDK depency is limited to one small jar, the datasource subproject > which is optional for Cocoon, so the Cocoon core is no longer JDK > dependend > - If a bug is in one excalibur subproject we only have to revert this > subproject and not all. > > Disadvante: > - More smaller jars instead of one big one. > > Here is my +1 +1. I started to move the Jisp based FS store to Avalon with the new Jisp 2.0 API, today. Greets Gerhard -- "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. (Jean-Paul Sartre)" Weblogging at: http://radio.weblogs.com/0107791/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: cocoon-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org For additional commands, email: cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org