I don't have any examples, but I don't know of any webapps that don't
bundle dependencies otherwise users are forced to install all the
dependencies by hand into tomcat/common or something. Whether they
dependencies are ASF compatible or not I don't know, but from the peanut
gallery that sounds completely normal.

Tom

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I advising a podling on producing a binary release that
> includes a Java web app (think war file). I wanted to give
> them a taste of what TLPs do so I went to the ones that
> I knew were generating war files: Oozie and Ranger.
> You know the stuff I'm familiar with in Hadoop ecosystem.
>
> What he discovered may shock you! No, but seriously.
>
> Here's what these projects publish on Maven central:
>
> https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/
> apache/oozie/oozie-webapp/4.3.0/oozie-webapp-4.3.0.war
> https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/
> apache/ranger/security-admin-web/0.7.0/security-admin-web-0.7.0.war
>
> Each of these WAR files:
>    1. bundles all sorts of dependancies -- not just the bits coming
>     from the project itself
>
>     2. Neither provides a meanigful LICENSE nor NOTICE files.
>     The ones under ./WEB-INF/classes/META-INF are stock ones
>     and really don't address the binary dependencies bundling
>
> Have we somehow relaxed the requirements for binary artifacts?
> I hope not -- and if not -- what are the good examples of web app
> projects doing it right?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
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