> You do not want to mark it as not optional since IIRC that would mean that > anything building against jdo-api.jar would have to have ant in the > CLASSPATH. We do not want that.
Although maybe the "test" scope would override that requirement? No subsititute for actually trying it with a clean M2 repo, and building/running a simple JDO project against it (with clean M2 repo also). -- Andy DataNucleus (http://www.datanucleus.org)