> This raises some general issues that we should discuss:
>
> a) how to track the version of the jar files distributed with OFBiz? (I
> think it is a good idea to append the revision number to the name of the
> jar file)

+1

> b) how to manage jar interdependencies? For example, the new JPublish
> distribution depends on several jar files (included in the JPublish
> distribution), and some of them (such as the bsh.jar file) are already
> included in OFBiz but could be of a different release (older or
> newer)... how should be handle situation like this one?

I agree with David to keep only what is needed (no duplication) but it's one 
more task and we have already plenty, isn't ?
For the moment my advice would be "status quo"

> c) this last point is a philosophical issue: it is nice to keep the
> older tools in the framework (such as the integration with JPublish),
> even if in the OFBiz distribution they are no more used (but this is
> still not the case of JPublish, used by the Shark and Content
> components), however what should we do when the older tools make more
> difficult the upgrade to newer tools (new jars etc...)? I think that
> this could slow down the growth of OFBiz because it is difficult to find
> people willing to help to keep updated with the rest of the system
> things that are not really used. (should we think of a framework-lite
> distribution of the OFBiz framework that contains just the things that
> the svn version of OFBiz uses?)

I agree. Shark is already commented out. For Content this seems more 
complicated, I have no clear idea

Jacques

>
> Jacopo
>
>
> Jacques Le Roux (JIRA) wrote:
> >     [ 
> > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-401?page=comments#action_12445373
> >  ]
> >
> > Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-401:
> > ---------------------------------------
> >
> > Reviewing more seriously this issue I realised that the problem Jacopo 
> > encoutered is related to JPublish.
> >
> > I checked source 
> > (http://jpublish.cvs.sourceforge.net/jpublish/jpublish/src/org/jpublish/action/ScriptAction.java?view=log)
> >   :
Jpublish does not use IBM no more for 2 years and a half now. So it seems that 
updating JPublish to last stable should do the
trick...
> >
> > In Revision 1.34 you may see David's work :o)
> >
> >> upgrade bsf to something a bit more modern
> >> ------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>                 Key: OFBIZ-401
> >>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-401
> >>             Project: OFBiz (The Open for Business Project)
> >>          Issue Type: Bug
> >>          Components: framework
> >>    Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> >>            Reporter: Adam Heath
> >>         Assigned To: Jacques Le Roux
> >>            Priority: Trivial
> >>             Fix For: SVN trunk
> >>
> >>         Attachments: bsf.diff
> >>
> >>
> >> OfBiz still uses a bsf version from when it was hosted/maintained by ibm.  
> >> The attached patch fixes this(does a
search/replace), changing the package names.
> >

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