On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Adrian A. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also regarding the javassist dependency, this shouldn't be a problem >>> cause the scope of the dependency is "provided": >>> http://github.com/jkuhnert/ognl/issues/closed#issue/2 >>> >> >> >> I assume that is maven-speak :) Does provided mean optional? >> > I think it's something like this - if the users "provides" it at runtime, > than it will be used, otherwise it's not required. > > Adrian. > > No, it is a dependence! It means ognl won't work if you (you environment) don't have it[1]. (for example: javax.annotation is provided, if you don't have it nothing works!) Gilberto [1] http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-project-dependencies.html#pom-relationships-sect-dependency-scope
