Re: Updating libraries

2013-12-03 Thread Lukasz Lenart
2013/12/3 foo bar : > Hi, > > Thanks for that response, very helpful. > It's just sometimes our code may need to use a later version of a library > that struts also uses, based on this, I think we will need to do a risk > benefit analysis on such occasion. It should be possible to simple drop in d

Re: Updating libraries

2013-12-03 Thread foo bar
Hi, Thanks for that response, very helpful. It's just sometimes our code may need to use a later version of a library that struts also uses, based on this, I think we will need to do a risk benefit analysis on such occasion. Just curious though, according to this pom file http://repo1.maven.org/m

Re: Updating libraries

2013-12-03 Thread Lukasz Lenart
If you want to use the latest libraries it is better to register a JIRA ticket with request to update such. Regards -- Ɓukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ 2013/12/3 foo bar : > Hi all, > > I'm using the latest struts-2.3.15.3 on our web application. > Is it fine to use the latest

Re: Updating libraries

2013-12-03 Thread Dave Newton
There is *a* degree of something breaking if you start using random libraries. Transitive dependency management exists for a reason; going against what a framework *actually* depends on creates the exact risk you'd expect it would. Dave On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:43 AM, foo bar wrote: > Hi all

Updating libraries

2013-12-03 Thread foo bar
Hi all, I'm using the latest struts-2.3.15.3 on our web application. Is it fine to use the latest third party libraries other than what's included in the distribution (struts-2.3.15.3-lib.zip and struts-2.3.15.3-all.zip) ? For example Is it fine to use javassist-3.18.0-GA, commons-io-2.4, freema