Hi Arnaud,

Arnaud Héritier wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de>
> wrote:

[snip]

>> IMHO, mvjars will create a bigger maintenance mess than the current
>> solutions.
>>
> 
> I don't know. I think it really depends if your are provider or consumer
> of mvjars. If you are consumer you may imagine to not have to manually
> switch anymore between several implementations (using classifiers ....)
> and it gives you the ability to do the selection at runtime and not at
> build time. As producer I agree that it won't be easy if tools (Build,
> IDE) aren't providing a good/simple support. That's why Oracle (Brian) is
> trying to involve us.

Actually my biggest fear is for such a feature that some people will find 
*very* creative ways to use it. Therefore I hope that mvjars will be 
consequently restricted e.g. they should not be allowed to provide changes 
in the API for different versions. Better safe than sorry.

- Jörg


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