[jira] [Created] (AMQ-5009) Switch activemq-all from shaded jar to pom dependency aggregator

["Michael O'Cleirigh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Michael O'Cleirigh created AMQ-5009:
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             Summary: Switch activemq-all from shaded jar to pom dependency aggregator
                 Key: AMQ-5009
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-5009
             Project: ActiveMQ
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 5.9.0
            Reporter: Michael O'Cleirigh
             Fix For: 5.10.0


I encountered an issue when adding a dependency on activemq-all into my project; it caused a collision with our existing dependency on *slf4j-log4j12*

{code}
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/root/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.6.2/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.2.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/root/.m2/repository/org/apache/activemq/activemq-all/5.9.0/activemq-all-5.9.0.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
{code}

The main issue is that because the activemq-all jar is shaded there is no way for us to use maven dependency *exclusions* command to not take the activemq-all contributed *slf4j-log4j12* artifact.

There is a straight forward fix to this issue.  

Switch from using the *maven-shade-plugin* to using a pom dependency which aggregates the activemq dependencies in a maven controllable way. 

By making the packaging of the *activemq-all* artifact pom it means that when it is included in a project only the transitive dependencies that it declares are included, the pom artifact itself is not.

I've tested that this works in our project that depends on activemq-all 5.9.0 and also have a patch prepared against the current 5.10-SNAPSHOT trunk.

The only difference to the consumer of the activemq-all artifact is that they have to specify the *<type>* as pom.

For example:

{code}
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
    <artifactId>activemq-all</artifactId>
    <version>5.9.0</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>
{code}

The Apache Wicket project uses the same approach, see [here|http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/wicket/wicket/6.13.0/wicket-6.13.0.pom]



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