[jakartaee-platform-dev] More API housekeeping tasks

[lenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

Following up on my “API cleaning” theme, here some more things:

- https://github.com/jakartaee/jakartaee-api/pull/96

This one is from 2020 and more relevant than ever. Jakarta EE APIs need to be reproducible.

I think this also applies to all APIs, not just the platform ones.

- JPMS automatic modules;

[WARN] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

[WARN] * Required filename-based automodules detected: [jakarta.faces-api-4.0.1.jar]. Please don't publish this project to a public artifact repository! *

[WARN] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

The above warning shows up for all Jakarta APIs. There is an easy way to solve it as described here:

http://branchandbound.net/blog/java/2017/12/automatic-module-name/

Gist of it:

          <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <archive>
                        <manifestEntries>
                            <Automatic-Module-Name>jakarta.faces-api</Automatic-Module-Name>
                        </manifestEntries>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

This also will need to be done for all the APIs