On Aug 15, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

>> Check out the Assembly plugin and it's predefined
>> "jar-with-dependencies" descriptor[1]. I'm pretty sure that
>> most people
>> using Maven will just have a runtime dependency on the core OpenJPA
>> library and be done with it, but it's always nice for Ant users.
>
> Exactly -- mvn users will use the dependencies, but people who want to
> download and use the distribution directly may not want a billion  
> little
> jars.

Yes, my experience says it's ok to have 10 dependencies on e.g.  
commons-logger, antlr, etc. but having 10 dependencies on openjpa- 
kernel4, openjpa-kernel5, openjpa-api, openjpa-blah is annoying.

So if possible, I'd also like to have a jar with all the stuff in it.

Craig
>
> -Patrick
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