Hey all, looking at the quickstarts for the upcoming release, I am a little confused:
We use the shade plugin to build a fat jar and exclude some of Flink's dependencies (actual and transitive). Then we have a build profile (build-jar), which sets the Flink dependencies to provided. 1. Is there a difference between these two approaches? @Robert and Stephan: can you comment on this please? I would like to fix this for the release. The current quickstart pom looks somewhat unclean. From my understanding both approaches are equivalent and actually the "provided" variant w/o cumbersome shade plugin exclusion configuration should be preferred, e.g. <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-java</artifactId> <version>0.9.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> ... (other Flink deps for the quickstart) + simple shade plugin configuration to build a fat jar (don't need to set any exclusions (which is doomed to get out-of-sync)). If I am not overlooking anything, this approach is much cleaner and should be the default. – Ufuk
