Bill Shannon wrote:
> 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.
That would be me:-)
I'll see what can be done and report soon to the alias,
Thanks,
Ludo
> 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
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