Granted. There is obviously more than one way to roll out a fix. But in my view it's not WebLogic's job to change their approach because Maven does not embrace the notion of an ordered classpath. I don't hold as self-evident the idea that "Builds which depend upon the ordering of artifacts in the classpath is one of those things which are certainly not a best practice". There is nothing wrong with order. It is central to what it means to be a Java classpath. It is how Java's classloader knows where to look for the classes it loads. It's the key to predictability, which is not only a good thing, it is essential to what I'm trying to do. Unfortunately, the classpath Maven generates is not always so well-behaved and has caused me some major grief. Hard as it may be to believe, I want to like Maven. But I also want some control over it when it demonstrates its ability to get things wrong.
-kevin I disagree. The Maven model would simply require that Weblogic produce updated JARs with the patches applied, and you would roll the versions in the poms (or simply import a single pom provided by Weblogic where they manage versions and artifacts for you) and rebuild your project. This sounds far easier (and far more consistent) than depending upon jars which may or may not currently exist in a given Weblogic build. Maven is not simply another build tool like Ant or Make. It is also a vehicle for presenting and delivering build management best practices as interpreted by the Maven Dev team/PMC. Builds which depend upon the ordering of artifacts in the classpath is one of those things which are certainly not a best practice, just like code patches, and so these features are not available. As always, this is simply my opinion. Someone who is actually in the Maven Dev team may respond and say I'm completely wrong on these issues, and that support for patches and ordering of classpath items is on the TODO list, but I generally doubt it. ;-) Wayne -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-m2--Dependency-Ordering-Headache-tf3668646s177.html#a10262265 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
