On 19/03/2009, Dev at weitling <d...@weitling.net> wrote: > > > sebb wrote: > > On 19/03/2009, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > scope provided will do what you need afaik > >> > > > >> > > >> > Yes, but then AFAIK the user has to download and install the jar > >> > separately, which is a pain. > >> > > >> > >> > >> Nope.... > >> > > > > I think you meant "Yep..." as you seem to be agreeing with me. > > > > > >> provided just says that somebody will provide it for you and that maven > does > >> not need to worry about it. > >> > > > > Yes, I know. > > > > Maven maybe does not have to worry about it, but the user does, which > > is what I want to avoid. > > > > AIUI "provided" is mainly intended for jars that are not available via > > the repository, e.g. they may be commercial jars that have to be paid > > for separately. > > > > > A common examples are servlets: You compile them using the Servlet-API, > the runtime jars are provided by the Servlet-container (Tomcat, Jetty...). > So your dependency is on Servlet-API wth <scope>provided</scope>. > > Regarding an older post from you: It is (afaik) not possible to load and > instantiate a class when its parent classes/interfaces are not > loaded/loadable (i.e. on the classpath).
Not my post. > Can you deploy your product to the user via Maven? Not applicable. > Regards, > Florian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
