Jakarta Cactus does not build due to dependency on j2ee-1.3.jar

• Key: CACTUS-105
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Invalid
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Petar Tahchiev
• Reporter: Archimedes Trajano
• Component/s: Other
• Affects Version/s: 1.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.8

Description

I know that j2ee.jar is not available in ibiblio but a close equivalent one is in jboss-j2ee-3.2.3.jar, would it be possible to use that instead in the project.xml file?

i.e.
   <dependency>
      <groupId>jboss</groupId>
      <artifactId>jboss-j2ee</artifactId>
      <version>3.2.3</version>
    </dependency>

Comments

Sounds like a good idea if it works. However there's still a problem: we need 2 versions: one for J2EE 1.2 and one for J2EE 1.3 (and soon another one for J2EE 1.4). Is there one in JBoss for J2EE 1.2?

in addition we'll need to derive these jboss-j2ee versions from ${cactus.j2ee.version.full}. For example we need to transform "1.3" into "3.2.3". That'll require some scripting in maven.xml. Not nice. However this can solved by splitting the framework/ maven projects into 3 projects: shared/, j2ee12/ and j2ee13/.

[Archimedes Trajano]

I think it does work, I basically copied the jboss-j2ee-3.2.3.jar as j2ee-1.3.jar on my local repository.

[Vincent Massol]

ok. Cool. But what about the other issues I've highlighted in my previous comment?

Thanks

[Archimedes Trajano]

I was just thinking about it, if cactus builds on 1.3 why do we need the other version for? Since this was supposed to be just a build problem that we're trying to resolve right?

[Archimedes Trajano]

Doh I see the problem now.

[Vincent Massol]

I've just applied your idea of using jboss-j2ee jar for the Ant build. For Maven it's a bit more complex and I think we need to wait till we separate the framework project and others into several subprojects (share/, j2ee12/, j2ee13/). We also need to decide whether we want to do this.

[Petar Tahchiev]

I am closing this issue since it is no longer valid, because Cactus build system is now Maven