Re: [jira] Updated: (AXIS2-249) Exessive number & size of files generated from WSDL

[Eran Chinthaka <ch...@opensource.lk>]

Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:33 -0700, Simon Fell wrote:
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>>Other fun facts & figures, the axis binary download weights in at
>>33Mb, compared to 24Mb for the entire .NET 1.1 runtime installer.
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>That's absolutely pathetic and unacceptable :(.
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>So let's start pairing this down:
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>- let's move the security module to WSS4J and release that separately?
>Let folks download that separately (we can point to that too but its not
>reasonable to include that in the base)
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+1

>- the way we're packaging now, there are 2+ copies of every jar file in
>the binary dist:
>	- one copy in the lib/ directory
>	- another copy in the webapps/META-INF/lib directory
>	- for all the security stuff (I was going to say junk but I restrained
>myself ;-)) inside the mar file as well
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>- we are also dist'ing 2 copies of all the mars
>	- one copy in the webapp
>	- one copy outside the webapp
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>I'd like to separate the webapp into a separate download from the base
>binary distribution. Can we think of a creative way to package the admin
>war separately?
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+1 to make the war download separately from the bin.

>We need to do some serious refactoring of the build and dist stuff.
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>Sanjiva.
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