Hi,
I tried to use the Maven Indexer (in conjunction with Aether)
separately from the m2e project. Actually, since there is no
official Eclipse Aether release available yet, I only used m2e
bundles including the "old" Sonatype Aether version and the indexer
bundles. When analyzing the me2 bundles, I found some things not
clear to me:
In m2e.maven.runtime, a lot of 3rd party libraries (such as Sonatype
Aether) are included. Same is true for the me2.maven.indexer and
m2e.archetype.indexer bundles. On the one hand, some of these
libraries are already present in the Eclipse Orbit, such as
org.apache.commons.cli (and other apache commons libraries), or
lucene. On the other hand, some libraries are missing to make these
bundles self-contained. These missing libraries are
async-http-client-1.6.5, netty-3.2.5, and slf4j-api-1.6.4. Actually,
these libraries can also be found in the Orbit, albeit
slf4j-api-1.6.4 is only contained in the latest Orbit version
(R20120526062928). Did I miss something, like a me2 bundle
containing these missing libraries, or is there a reason for this
different 3rd party library management?
Also, I found that some maven indexer classes contained in
indexer-core-3.1.0.jar, which is bundled in m2e.maven.indexer, are
also contained in the very same bundle directly (that is, unarchived
in folder org/apache/maven/indexer). From a quick glance it seems as
if these class files are identical to the one contained in
indexer-corre-3.1.0. Is there a reason for duplicating them?
Regards,
Jens
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