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activiti-juel jar versioning

gnodet — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:28:18 GMT

While adding some OSGi metadata to activiti-juel, I ran into the problem that this jar isn't versioned as a snapshot, but the version is the one derived from juel. I don't think it works as no modification should be made to a non snapshot jar.A solution would be to just drop the original 2.2.1 vers

Re: activiti-juel jar versioning

farrukh_najmi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:40:16 GMT

Somewhat peripheral question that I was curious about…

Why did activiti choose to fork the http://juel.sourceforge.net/ project rather than just using it?

Re: activiti-juel jar versioning

gnodet — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:26:18 GMT

Yeah, I'm not sure either. The <description> tag in the pom says "Adapter version of JUEL without dependencies to javax.el". That just explains what has been done, not really why.
The commit log says: "ACT-189 activiti-juel added, based on Apache-licensed JUEL 2.2.1 to allow method-invocations with params in expressions, even in old EL-environments" which provides a bit more information.
But not being on EL expert, I can't provide more information …

Anyway, unless someone shouts quickly, I'll change the version number, as having non snapshot in a tree is really bad (nearly as bad as having SNAPSHOT in a tag).

Re: activiti-juel jar versioning

tombaeyens — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:01:02 GMT

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-189 provides more info as well on the reasoning.

Guillaume, what version number do you want to update?

Re: activiti-juel jar versioning

gnodet — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:06:29 GMT

The current trunk uses a non SNAPSHOT (2.2.1) version for activiti-juel module.
I've changed it to use 5.0.rc1-SNAPSHOT.
The very reason is that while transforming all modules into OSGi bundles, I need to update the activiti-juel one, which becomes a problem because it's not a snapshot.
I'm happy to change to something, provided it's a snapshot.

Re: activiti-juel jar versioning

tombaeyens — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:22:10 GMT

ok makes sense.

i'm considering to include the juel classes in the activiti-engine module/jar. that might also solve the issue.

Re: activiti-juel jar versioning

gnodet — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:53:06 GMT

I'm not sure what the benefit would be. If we want an overall jar, we should have a separate jar which would include activiti-pvm, activiti-engine, activiti-juel, and maybe others too. The purpose would be ease of consumption for some users.
But I think keeping separate maven modules makes sense, as these are clearly unrelated.