Re: Can we remove the MinML2.jar file?

[David E. Jones]

-David


On May 1, 2007, at 6:26 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

I'm pretty sure iText (or something) depended on MinML2 even though I don't believe anything in OFBiz uses it directly. To test it the easiest thing is probably to create a CompDoc Template with 2 PDF place holders, then create an instance of that CompDoc and upload 2 PDFs, then have it generate the combined PDF. That will use iText to create the combined output file.

David, all,

please see my comments inline:

David E. Jones wrote:

We have a lot of libraries in OFBiz, and it's a pretty major effort to keep them all updated but certainly something we need and want to do. Sometimes it is hard to test the updated library, and that is the case with itext since most of the stuff that uses it is buried in things like the CompDoc stuff in the Content Manager and running through a test scenario to use itext to combine PDF documents is somewhat involved. In these circumstances we can kind of go either way, either: 1. leave the old version so that it will more likely work the next time someone uses it 2. update to the latest version so that new things and things in general will more likely work, and version dependencies between libraries in OFBiz won't as likely become a problem

org.ofbiz.content.compdoc.CompDocServices
org.ofbiz.content.survey.SurveyServices


Could you please give me any pointers?


Thanks,

Jacopo

I've searched for the string "lowagie" (part of the package name for the classes in the iText jar) and the only classes that are using them are: They both compile fine with the new upgraded iText jar but I don't know how to test them. I'd like to verify if they run properly with the new jar and also try to remove the MinML2.jar file...

So, for this one they both have pluses and minuses. The best thing is to update and test everything that uses it, but that takes a lot of time and effort (both finding everything that uses it, and running the tests). In other words, it's up to you, I'm fine with either way and somewhat favor #2...

-David
On Apr 6, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

And now I'm also running the latest itext-2.0.1.jar instead of the older version in the trunk (itext-1.3.6.jar) and everything seems good.

Should we plan to update also the iText jar?

Jacopo

Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

David,

What do you think?
Jacopo
David E. Jones wrote:

yeah dependencies can be a nightmare... and maybe we should even try to document them in some way somewhere. However, PDF are printing fine even without the MinML2.jar and so possibly the jar was needed by an older version of iText.

-David


On Apr 6, 2007, at 5:37 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

Weeding out jar files is a tricky business... that one, for example, is used by itext if I remember right and is a runtime dependency. Removing it would cause problems for certain things.

After removing the framwork/webapp/lib/MinML2.jar file I could build and run succesfully OFBiz.

Can we remove it? For what is it used that jar?

Jacopo

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