ludo wrote:
> 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,
Be careful though - there are no defined rules so far on the versioning
of those jars, and no centralized support for that either. I accidentally
overwrote 1.0 version persistence-api jar with the latest bug fixes because
of that.
-marina
> 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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