ok I see.
My take is that by default we should be spec compliant. I am fine
having a flag for backward compatibility, seems useful to me.
jerome
On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Kenneth Saks wrote:
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> On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Jerome Dochez wrote:
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>>>
>>> I just learned that a conscious decision was made that the server-
>>> side would not conform to this provision of the spec but would let
>>> modules see top-level JARs as in the past.
>> I am not aware of that decision, did I make it ? (I have been known
>> to not remember past mistakes)
>
> Yes, we discussed it with Hong about a month ago. The decision was
> to preserve the V2 behavior of making any .jars at the .ear level
> visible as library .jars. We only talked about the server-side case
> though, not app clients.
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