There is no "JEE". *Never* use that name. Thanks.
http://www.java.com/en/about/brand/naming.jsp
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=35561
Somebody is supposed to be working on providing a "javaee.jar" for
just this purpose. I'll give him another kick and find out why
it's taking so long.
Markus KARG wrote:
> Dear Glassfish Administration,
>
> The usage of the "Maven2" (MVN2) tool is quite common to wide areas of
> the global software industry and amateur programmers community. A core
> idea of MVN2 is to support automatic downloads of dependencies (i. e.
> libraries needed for compilation) from a central repository
> (http://repo1.maven.org).
>
> JEE 5 programmers need to compile their components and modules by using
> JEE 5 APIs (javax.ejb and other packages). To be able to do so, they
> need to have a JAR file containing the JEE 5 API interfaces. Currently
> there are only two ways to obtain these. Either downloading the JEE 5
> SDK, or downloading Glassfish. Both implies lenghty, manual downloads.
> If the source code shall be provided to others, that others must also do
> that download since distribution of the Sun JARs is not allowed. This is
> a major drawback of current JEE 5 distribution concepts.
>
> JEE 5 programmers wish to be able to just add a dependency to the JEE
> API into their pom.xml MVN2 descriptor, which would allow everyone to
> get the needed JARs downloaded automatically, without any need to do
> manual downloads of complete JEE implementations.
>
> Unfortunately the central MVN2 repository (see URL above) only provides
> J2EE 1.4 compliant downloads, while JEE 5 is missing. Now with Glassfish
> providing a JEE 5 compliant implementation on an open source basis, it
> should be possible to provide the API JARs (JEE 5 interfaces only, not
> the complete Glassfish implementation) to the above-mentioned central
> repository.
>
> While it actually would be enough to have one single JEE 5 JAR
> containing all libraries, it would certainly beneficial to instead have
> a JEE pom.xml that in turn is nothing else but a collection of
> dependencies, which in turn automate the downloading of the EJB, JMS,
> JCA and other JARs contained in JEE. This would allow the programmer to
> only contain the needed downloads for improved speed, or in the case he
> is not developing a JEE application but only e. g. likes to use the JTA
> API in a standalone application.
>
> This would be a great help to all those JEE 5 users, since it relieves
> from manually downloading the complete JEE SDK manually to obtain a copy
> of the EJB and other APIs needed for compilation of JEE 5 components and
> modules.
>
> I want to ask the Glassfish administration to provide the needed APIs in
> form of MVN2 compliant projects on the above-mentioned central
> repository. The work needed is a few hours only, but thousands of
> programmers will have a large benefit.
>
> Regards
> Markus KARG