On 6/5/06, Hiram Chirino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Robert, The incubator-activemq-4.0.jar is an uber jar that is built by aggregating the activemq broker, client and a few dependency jars like derby. I think derby is where IBM reference comes from and also explains the multiple copies of the same file thing (different jars were using different naming conventions). This uber jar is helpful for folks who want to get started with a small footprint client and and server with minimum fuss about finding out what dependencies need to be included in the application classpath.
thought it must be something like that and i don't disagree about the utility of an uber jar :-) would this jar be pubilcally released as an independent artifact? if so, then it might not be sufficient just to aggregate the contents of the various jars and hope for the best. all the various LICENSEs need to be appended into a single LICENSE and the notices consolidated. hopefully someone who understands this area better than me will jump in here with more normative comments. otherwise, we might need to raise this on legal-discuss. if not, then i'd be willing to +1 but would recommend that for future releases a README is added to the uber jar. this should stop users with legal questions pestering your list (or legal-discuss). - robert
