Marina Vatkina wrote:
> 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.
Hum... Was is an API bug? Did you change an API in JPA?
My understanding is that the public APIs found in javaee.jar for EE 5
will *not* change for Java EE 5.
Of course a new set of APIs will be in Java EE 6. Correct me If I am wrong.
Ludo
>
> -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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