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Re: fix for issue 924 (merging the JSF api and impl jar into a single jar)

From: Andy Schwartz <andy.g.schwartz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:24:18 -0500

Hi Sheetal -

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Sheetal Vartak
<sheetal.vartak_at_oracle.com> wrote:

>> API classes should not reference implementation (com.sun.faces)
>> classes directly.  One of the main reasons for the very common
>> practice of splitting API and implementation into separate jars is to
>> avoid exactly this sort of reverse dependency.
>
> I agree with you on this as well. Since I have exhausted all viable solutions that I know of, would love to hear if there is a better way to approach this.


The current direction of relying on a jar merge to fix this issue
misses the root cause of the problem. I have updated issue 1826 with
detailed thoughts on this.

Andy