Dependencies without version tag

[Simon Trudeau <st...@bluetreewireless.com>]

I would like to add a dependency to my maven project but have it
included WITHOUT the version tag. I am currently running into problems
where the comm.jar (javax.comm) library needs to be exactly named that
way and cannot be named comm-2.0.3.jar or some other thing because
otherwise it fails. This library references a .dll and a properties
file... this must have something to do with it. That is why I don't want
my project to depend on a library with a version number. This means that
my classpath entry autogenerated must also reference jars without
version tag.
 
Is there a way to strip the version tag from a dependency so that it
will be reflected in the classpath entry of the jar's manifest?
 
Thanks.
 
Simon
 
P.S.: Any maven help in dealing with the comm.jar library is also
welcomed! :.)

Re: Dependencies without version tag

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

How are you using the JAR exactly?

In other projects we deal with this by copying the file to a new
location with the version removed at the time it needs to be used.

- Brett

2008/10/4 Simon Trudeau <st...@bluetreewireless.com>:
> I would like to add a dependency to my maven project but have it
> included WITHOUT the version tag. I am currently running into problems
> where the comm.jar (javax.comm) library needs to be exactly named that
> way and cannot be named comm-2.0.3.jar or some other thing because
> otherwise it fails. This library references a .dll and a properties
> file... this must have something to do with it. That is why I don't want
> my project to depend on a library with a version number. This means that
> my classpath entry autogenerated must also reference jars without
> version tag.
>
> Is there a way to strip the version tag from a dependency so that it
> will be reflected in the classpath entry of the jar's manifest?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Simon
>
> P.S.: Any maven help in dealing with the comm.jar library is also
> welcomed! :.)
>



-- 
Brett Porter
Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/

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