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Re: building Glassfish 3.1.2 from source using maven

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:58:54 -0700

peter belbin wrote on 03/19/12 07:15:
> c)There are dependencies that I had to hunt around to find. Perhaps that was a
> manifestation of the mvn config issues, but, finding a suitable activation.jar
> was a hassle. Perhaps you should consider providing a zip package of
> dependencies with each version so that these can be taken care of quickly and
> with less frustration.

Why did you need activation.jar? JAF (activation.jar) is included in
Java SE 6. Is there a dependency we forgot to remove?