One new feature I'm working on for 1.1 is support for tomcat style
shared libs. This creates a shared class loader visible to all j2ee
applications which contains shared/lib/*.jar and shared/classes/ to
the class loader.
Will this address your issues?
-dain
On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:
>
> I have a situation where I need to make several web modules
> dependent upon a large number of jars. I'd like to add the jars to
> the Geronimo repo and add the dependencies into the plans for the
> web modules. However, most of the jars don't follow the maven
> naming convention because the names don't include a version (and
> I'd rather not rename all the jars).
>
> I know that there are changes being included in 1.1 to make the
> version in a reference optional. However, I doubt that it is
> possible to reference a jar in the repo that doesn't contain any
> version. Just thought I should ask in case it really is possible.
> I could see where this might be something users would like when
> they have picked up jars from various places which may or may not
> contain a version in the jar name.
>
> If it *is* possible to have a non-versioned jar in the repo ... how
> do we differentiate in geronimo 1.1 between a dependency on a non-
> versioned jar versus a dependency on the latest version of a jar
> (in case both are present).
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Joe
>
> --
> Joe Bohn
> joe.bohn at earthlink.net
>
> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he
> cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot
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