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Re: JPA 2.0 Maven Artifact

From: Farrukh Najmi <farrukh_at_wellfleetsoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:32:56 -0400

On 07/27/2010 02:28 PM, Aleksei Valikov wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>> Just wanted to clarify couple of points
>> 1. EcliseLink maven repo location:
>> Refer to http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Maven for official location of
>> the repo. The location below points to one of the mirrors directly.
>>
>> 2. vendor-dependency:
>> Obviously all the interface definition will be identical between
>> javax.persitence.jar from various vendors. The difference may be in
>> extensions provided by verndors. For example EclipseLink's
>> javax.pesitence.jar is capable of functioning inside OSGI environment.
>>
> Ok, glad I did not misunderstand this.
>
> Anyway, somehow I'm surprized that there's no standard
> vendor-independent artifact uploaded to the central repo. This is a
> usual practice to have javax.* APIs uploaded to the central
> repository. Why is JPA 2 handled differently? Or am I missing
> something?
>
> Bye.
> /lexi
>
>

+1 on Lexi's suggestion for a vendor-independent maven artifact deployed
to central repo.

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Regards,
Farrukh
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