<scope>system</scope> is for JAR files that are supposed to be put in the
JVM's ext directory or equivalent.

You do not want to use <scope>system</scope>


On 28 July 2014 15:43, Steve Cohen <sco...@javactivity.org> wrote:

> Sadly, my hopes were not completely fulfilled.
>
> In spite of specifying the MQ jars as system dependencies with their own
> paths, the maven manifest generator ignored these paths.  This means that I
> must no longer run my application with java -jar, relying on the classpath
> manifest, but must specify the classpath on the command line.  Doable, but
> annoying.
>
> This is arguably a bug.  If system dependencies are required to list their
> path, should not the manifest classpath generator respect these?
>
>
> On 07/28/2014 09:13 AM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>
>> I think the most painless and maven-like way to proceed given the
>> non-maven requirements of IBM here is to install the IBM Websphere MQ
>> client package on each development or production machine that needs it
>> and alter pom xml to make these system-scope dependencies, which lets me
>> specify the non-standard location.
>>
>> Then, I'm hoping that the manifest generator of the application jar will
>> pick up these locations and put them on the classpath.
>>
>>
>> On 07/25/2014 01:05 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> Yecch.  I'm already using the assembly plugin.  But it appears that with
>>> that approach instead of using the lovely dependency set, I must use
>>> <file>s (handle each jar individually) because this is the highest level
>>> that allows renaming of the files.
>>>
>>> Ugh.
>>>
>>> On 07/25/2014 12:44 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, thanks, Curtis.  I will have to address it on the packaging side, I
>>>> suppose.  It will force me to get tricky and not just use a dependency
>>>> set (which was lovely and simple).
>>>>
>>>> IBM's requirement is ironclad.  They won't even talk to me in spite of
>>>> having a support contract if we repackage the jars.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/25/2014 12:22 PM, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>>
>>>>>  The easiest way to accomplish this would be if k could get these jars
>>>>>> into the nexus repository named as IBM named them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Overriding the default naming scheme of JARs in a Maven repository has
>>>>> been
>>>>> requested on this list many times, and the answer is always that the
>>>>> naming
>>>>> scheme cannot be overridden. It is a requirement of the Maven
>>>>> repository
>>>>> that the name be "artifactId-version.extension" (or
>>>>> "artifactId-version-classifier.extension" if there is a classifier).
>>>>> Remember that the main purpose of Maven repositories is to provide
>>>>> dependencies for consumption by downstream code in a standard form --
>>>>> not
>>>>> to cater to application-specific deployment needs.
>>>>>
>>>>> But you can address the issue on the packaging side, when you build
>>>>> your
>>>>> application archive. As suggested by others, the maven-assembly-plugin
>>>>> can
>>>>> do this sort of thing. And you can also override the JAR manifests'
>>>>> Class-Path entries according to your needs by configuring the
>>>>> maven-jar-plugin: see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/5893391.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alternately, if you can somehow override or work around how the IBM
>>>>> trace
>>>>> feature works, that would avoid the issue too. Is it just that the JARs
>>>>> have to be on the classpath at runtime? Because there are many ways of
>>>>> addressing that. Subclassing one or more offending classes to fix their
>>>>> behavior? Or use a custom ClassLoader? Or, worst-case scenario,
>>>>> bytecode
>>>>> manipulation (e.g., http://www.javassist.org/) to "fix" IBM's limited
>>>>> logic?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Curtis
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Steve Cohen <sco...@javactivity.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  To elaborate further on what I'd like to do, I think I need to
>>>>>> create a
>>>>>> POM file that simply lists all these jars and supply that to the Nexus
>>>>>> archive uploader.  But I have no idea what must be included in such a
>>>>>> POM.
>>>>>>   The GUI archive uploader does not allow me to override default
>>>>>> naming of
>>>>>> these files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/25/2014 11:50 AM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Container?  Guess I need to supply more details.
>>>>>>> This is a standalone J2SE app.  The server side is legacy.  There
>>>>>>> is no
>>>>>>> container.  it isn't a web app.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Instead it's run as a jar with the classpath generated from maven's
>>>>>>> dependency set and listed in the jar's manifest.  Maven generates the
>>>>>>> manifest.  The easiest way to accomplish this would be if I could get
>>>>>>> these jars into the nexus repository named as IBM named them.  Then I
>>>>>>> can get them to a single directory so that the IBM trace facility can
>>>>>>> find them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 07/25/2014 11:39 AM, David Karr wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  It's conceivable you don't have to mess with any sort of
>>>>>>>> repackaging.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The problem is that the MQ classes that your container loads have to
>>>>>>>> be in
>>>>>>>> a specific location, with a specific name.  Simply deploy your
>>>>>>>> unmodified
>>>>>>>> application into a container with an altered classpath, where those
>>>>>>>> "special" jars are in front of everything else on the classpath.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Steve Cohen
>>>>>>>> <sco...@javactivity.org>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   I have a client application that was developed with Websphere
>>>>>>>> MQ.  Our
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> company has a Maven nexus repository.  In this repository, we
>>>>>>>>> have a
>>>>>>>>> place
>>>>>>>>> to store third party jars.  In here I stored the MQ jars.  Since
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> repository demanded a version number I provided one (7.0.1.8,
>>>>>>>>> 7.0.1.9, etc)
>>>>>>>>> and in each case these version numbers were appended to the jar
>>>>>>>>> name.  This
>>>>>>>>> led to a clean build and deploy process and everyone was happy.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Now we have need of turning on MQ traces.  It turns out that IBM
>>>>>>>>> offers no
>>>>>>>>> way of doing this unless the jar files are in a single directory
>>>>>>>>> named
>>>>>>>>> exactly as IBM named them in their release.  So we have to
>>>>>>>>> repackage the
>>>>>>>>> application so as to accomplish this.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Before I jump into hacking this mess into place, is there a
>>>>>>>>> recommended
>>>>>>>>> way of handling this so that the maven repository, maven, and ibm
>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>>> happy?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Steve Cohen
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