Re: [ee4j-pmc] Move platform API jar file and javadoc generation to plat

[Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, this is finally done.  The repo is here:
https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-api

Feedback encouraged.


Bill Shannon wrote on 4/18/19 2:49 PM:
> I've heard no objections and some support so I'll proceed with the plan below.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill Shannon wrote on 4/11/19 11:29 AM:
>> (Sorry for the cross-posting, but presumably both groups will be interested...)
>>
>> The Jakarta EE platform javadocs and API jar files are generated from a
>> subproject of the GlassFish repo.  A normal build of GlassFish does not build
>> this subproject, and a normal release of GlassFish does not release this
>> subproject.  This subproject collects together all the API artifacts from
>> all the other API projects, builds them, combines them into the platform
>> (and profile) API jar files, and generates the combined platform (and profile)
>> javadocs.
>>
>> The reason this is part of the GlassFish repo is so that it can share
>> the configuration of the *versions* of the API artifacts; the actual API
>> artifacts used by the subproject are defined in the subproject.
>>
>> I propose moving this subproject to a new repo in the Jakarta EE Platform
>> project.  This new Maven project can produce a BOM pom that can be imported
>> into GlassFish so that the artifact version configuration can still be shared.
>>
>> Updating GlassFish to use a new version of a component may require updating
>> the API version in the Jakarta EE platform project and updating the
>> implementation version in the GlassFish project.  This will be a minor issue
>> for components with a clean API/implementation separation, but will be more
>> of an issue for components that require synchronized updates of both artifacts.
>>
>> Questions?  Comments?  Concerns?
>>
>> If there are no objections by April 18, I'll start the process to move
>> this Maven subproject to a jakartaee-api repo in the Jakarta EE Platform
>> project.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>