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Re: ... and EJB API not in the maven repository

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:07 -0800

Ludovic Champenois wrote:
> Frank Kieviet wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> No, I meant j2ee.jar: I'm working on a JCA that needs to be backward
>> compatible with J2EE 1.4, because it needs to be able to run within
>> CAPS.
>>
>> But now that you mention javaee.jar for EE 5, I'm sure we'll have a need
>> for that too soon.
>>
>> BTW: the lack of j2ee.jar in a Maven repository has been an issue for
>> many open source developers.
> Breaking news: I am back from the winter break and a Java EE 5
> javaee.jar jar (without any code, only APIs and non usable
> implementation of methods) is going to be publish on java.net in the
> next 3 days.
> Bill: should I extend this process to the J2EE 1.4 j2ee.jar as well?

That would be fine. I assume it will be a one-time thing and there will
be no need to update it since the J2EE 1.4 APIs aren't changing, nor do
we need to enable anyone else to create that jar file. With those caveats
it should be cheap to do once manually.