[OPENJPA-345] "openjpa" maven module has unnecessary dependencies on other openjpa modules

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 1.0.0
• Component/s: build / infrastructure
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marc Prud'hommeaux
• Created: 30/Aug/07 16:23
• Updated: 04/Apr/21 08:46
• Resolved: 04/Apr/21 08:46

Description

The "openjpa" module of the maven project (e.g., the one available from http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/apache/openjpa/openjpa/1.0.0/ ) is an aggregate jar of all the other openjpa modules. For build reasons, this module has a dependency on all the other openjpa modules. However, the practical consequence is that when another project has a dependency on "openjpa", jars from all the other modules are downloaded and added as dependencies. So rather than just downloading the one "openjpa-1.0.0.jar" that is needed, the following additional jars are also downloaded and added as transitive dependencies of the maven project:

openjpa-jdbc-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-jdbc-5-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-kernel-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-kernel-5-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-lib-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-persistence-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-persistence-jdbc-1.0.0.jar
openjpa-xmlstore-1.0.0.jar

One solution might be to change the dependency type in the "openjpa" module to be "system", but we would need to investigate the consequences of doing this.

Issue Links

• relates to: OPENJPA-364 maven build order is incorrect