On 20 July 2010 14:21, Ron Smith <ron.sm...@valkyresoftware.com> wrote: > I am really not trying to be difficult, I promise (imagine if I were :-) ) > > So, there are Spring JARs that are now required for camel 2.4.0 but are not > included in the binary distribution because the new version of Sping, has > additional dependencies that only get sorted out if you choose to use maven? > > I don't mean to start another thread complaining about the dependency on > maven (though I tend to agree), I see there are already plenty of those. My > intent is to suggest that if Camel is intended to be its own framework and > not just a bag on the side of Spring, the binary distribution of Camel > should contain the jars required to run Camel and not just enough to get it > to compile.
FWIW Camel itself isn't dependent on Spring - you don't need spring at all to run Camel and lots of its components. But there are quite a few components which do depend on Spring (such as camel-jms) so its probably worth including Spring as well - even though its not required for Camel per se. -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://fusesource.com/
