Qpid packaging (Java)

[Nuno Santos]

I've been working on packaging the Java code and was somewhat surprised 
with the amount of dependencies that our code (client + broker) 
currently has. "Dependencies" in this context should be viewed as 
"requires" and "build requires" for rpm deployment and building, i.e., 
all the packages that need to be installed before qpid can be itself 
installed or built.

This points to a graph of a *partial* dependency tree: 
http://people.redhat.com/nsantos/graph.png

The original tree is much larger, but I've excluded maven2 and all its 
dependencies, as well as packages that are already in Fedora 7 (which 
takes care of things like ant, saxon, among many others). Still, this 
leaves a long list of 40 packages.

It's been pointed out to me that some of these dependencies may be 
lingering artifacts from stuff that was once used but is no more... if 
any of you can identify specific instances of such packages, or suggest 
other ways to prune the tree, I'd truly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Nuno