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Re: Very old ant.jar in modules dir?

From: Tom Mueller <tom.mueller_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:52:38 -0500

That contains the Java API for IPS (to check for updates).

On 7/13/2011 1:51 PM, Marina Vatkina wrote:
> 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