Standard locations for jar files, etc.?

["Steven T. Hatton" <ha...@globalsymmetry.com>]

I'm working with several apache products and find they differ in where they 
put the jar files and other resources.  For example, xerces puts the .jar 
files directly in the top level directory of the tarball.  Xindice, OTOH, 
puts them under dist.  There are yet other variants. This makes it difficult 
to set up default configurations that automatically add the jar files to the 
classpath.  

I will grant that it is not always desirable to add every one of the jar files 
to the default class path, but that can be addressed on a case by case basis.

Is this standardization of package structure something others would like to 
see?

STH

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Re: Standard locations for jar files, etc.?

["Steven T. Hatton" <ha...@globalsymmetry.com>]

On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:24, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > Is this standardization of package structure something others would like
> > to see?
>
> I'm sure everybody will like it.
> Experience shows, however, that it takes some time to
> reach consensus, and that the fastest way to get a
> standard is to have it implemented in a tool with a
> lot of other benefits.
> I'd suggest looking at Maven.
>
> J.Pietschmann

I just glanced at Maven, and it looks like the kind of approach I was vaguely 
envisioning. Perhaps not as ambitious, nor as comprehensive, but potentially 
useful is Antidote.  It's quirky, limitted, and somewhat unpredictable at its 
current state of development, but is nonetheless useful to a person who finds 
it easier to comprehend such things as build.xml files when they are 
represented in a concise visual manner. 

Having antidote with a built-in default configuration template might be 
advantageous to the implementors of Maven.  I have to admit I speak out of 
ignorance.  I am merely mentioning the tool because I would like to see it 
grow, and I believe it has a roll to play somewhere in the context of project 
management and standardization.

STH

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Re: Standard locations for jar files, etc.?

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> Is this standardization of package structure something others would like to 
> see?

I'm sure everybody will like it.
Experience shows, however, that it takes some time to
reach consensus, and that the fastest way to get a
standard is to have it implemented in a tool with a
lot of other benefits.
I'd suggest looking at Maven.

J.Pietschmann

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