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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:25:20 +0800
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Subject: Re: split manifest for jdk6 support
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Thanks for your feedback.

Jeff

Glen Mazza wrote:
> Another issue to keep in mind is that even if you are using JDK6, you
> will probably someday need to override one of the JARs already in the
> JDK6 with a newer version to fix some bug.  So make sure your solution
> is flexible enough to handle these types of scenarios.
>
> Glen
>
>
> Am Freitag, den 04.01.2008, 13:15 -0500 schrieb Daniel Kulp:
>   
>> Out of curiosity, why does having that stuff in the manifest cause a 
>> problem?    The classloaders should, by default, grab the stuff from 
>> jre/lib first anyway.  Thus, the stuff in the manifest should be 
>> ignored.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Friday 04 January 2008, Jeff Zhang wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I work on CXF jdk6 support. My proposal is split
>>> cxf-manifest-incubator.jar into 2 manifest jars, one includes all
>>> javax jars embedded in JDK6, such as jaxws, jaxb, stax, jws,
>>> annotation, etc..., we can call it cxf-specs-manifest.jar. And another
>>> one contains the rest jars.
>>>
>>> If users use JDK5, they include both manifest jars in classpath, if
>>> use JDK6, they can only include one manifest. For samples shipped with
>>> CXF, we can define rule in common_build.xml, it get JDK version from
>>> OS environment, and put right manifest jar into classpath.
>>>
>>> Do you think it reasonable?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jeff
>>>       
>>
>>     
>
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