[jakartaee-platform-dev] History of Mojarra dependency?

["Kevin Sutter" <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
This question
is probably targeted at Bill, but while I was looking to update the pom
in jakartaee-api for a Jakarta EE 9 Milestone/RC API, I came across this
dependency on Mojarra:

   
    <!-- work around for GLASSFISH-19861  -->
   
    <dependency>
   
        <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
   
        <artifactId>jakarta.faces</artifactId>
   
        <version>${mojarra.version}</version>
   
        <optional>true</optional>
   
    </dependency>

I know all about
the JSF API being dependent on Mojarra, but we're already bringing in the
JSF API as a separate dependency.  I looked up the
Issue that is referencedand it was closed back in 2013...  It looks like there was a discussion
between Ed and Bill about whether this dependency on com.sun.faces had
to be removed or not...  The end result looks like leaving these references
was an okay operation for Mojarra.

But, I'm confused
as to what this is doing for the generation of the API jar files.  Whether
I have this dependency in or out of the pom, it looks to still generate
the API jar files (without the com.sun.faces classes).  Any ideas?

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