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Re: Wanted: Improving the Maven story for GlassFish...

From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:38:47 -0700

Eduardo,

Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote On 06/10/06 10:22,:

> We just pushed a few more components to our maven repository (see
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/theaquarium?entry=java_persistence_and_ejb_jars)
> and we will continue adding components, and I expect that, as part of
> GlassFish v2, we will normalize and automate the creation of these
> components.
>
> The intention is to make this repository serve the larger Java
> Community. This is something that, over the years, Sun has been asked
> to do, and now, with the Open Source focus, we can deliver on. I have
> already seen people starting to use javamail and activation from
> there, and I think it would be useful to spend some energy in making
> the repository as useful as possible.
>
> Probably the first thing to do is to start collecting ideas of what
> needs to be done. By my tally we have:
>
> Components
> JavaPersistence API, TopLink Essentials,
> JSTL 1.2, JSP 2.0, Servlet 2.4, JSF 1.1, JSF 1.2


Add: JSP 2.1
Replace: Servlet 2.4 with Servlet 2.5

We still need to add Servlet 2.4. It's on my list.


Jan



> FastInfoset, XMLStream
> JavaMail
> Java Activation Framework
> JAXB
> JAX-WS, SAAJ
>
> Relatives
> Facelets
>
> Tools GF uses
> Japex
> Dalma
>
> What components are clearly missing? Bill was talking about doing a
> javaee.jar just for the APIs. I noticed that JAX-RPC seems missing
> and that should be easy to add, so I just sent a ping to Doug about it.
>
> What else should we do? Some thoughts...
>
> * We need a better index than the blogs at TA... :-)
> * Regular announcements somewhere (including the Maven USERS mailing
> list)
> * Synchronization with ibiblio?
> * Better integration with NB/Eclipse support?
>
> What else?
>
> Who has expertise in this area? Volunteers to help?
>
> - eduard/o
>
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