I think we should keep s2's dependencies down to an absolute minimum.
If you are writing an application, the more you reuse third-party
libraries the better, however, if you are writing a framework and/or
library, ideally, you should have none.
The main reason libraries should have as few deps as possible is it
imposes undue restrictions on the application using the library. For
example, say Struts 2 started using commons-lang 2.1, but the
application wanted to move to 3.0. They'd have to wait until Struts 2
moved to 3.0, but then all the apps using 2.1 would be forced to upgrade.
IMO, the ideal library has no dependencies, and I include
commons-logging in the forbidden list.
Don
Paul Benedict wrote:
Because Struts does alot of Spring manipulation on URIs, would it make sense to
add Commons Lang as a dependency? This way we don't have homegrown string
parsing done everytime. Thoughts for s2 too?
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