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Re: Very old ant.jar in modules dir?

From: Marina Vatkina <marina.vatkina_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:51:29 -0700

What is the purpose of the pkg-client module?

thanks,
-marina

Tom Mueller wrote:
> ant.jar is used by (at least) pkg-client.jar and jersey-gf-server.jar.
>
> pkg-client.jar uses it for processing TAR files (org.apache.tools.jar)
> jersey-gf-server.jar uses it for org.apache.tools.ant.types and
> org.apache.tools.ant. I don't know the details of what it uses it for.
>
> There may be other uses of ant.jar too.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On 7/13/2011 12:47 PM, Marina Vatkina wrote:
>> Team,
>>
>> Why do we have an ant.jar in the GF modules directory? Do we need it
>> to be of that old age (Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December
>> 13 2006)?
>>
>> I'm asking this because of the mismatch with the NetBeans version
>> that causes embedded EJB with CDI tests to fail under NetBeans.
>>
>> thanks,
>> -marina