Yes, this is one of my goals :)

2010/7/26 Jan-Kees van Andel <[email protected]>

> If it helps to make Shared obsolete you have my +1! :-)
>
> /JK
>
>
> 2010/7/26 Jakob Korherr <[email protected]>
>
> Hi guys,
>>
>> Working on the tests for FlashImpl, I ran into a problem with the
>> AbstractAttributeMap (MYFACES-2840). After fixing it, I needed to copy my
>> changes over to myfaces-test to be able to use the new version in the test
>> case (MYFACESTEST-21). And this copying really sucks...
>>
>> If you think about it there are many, many, many different places in the
>> whole MyFaces project where we have duplicate code, for example
>> package-private, unspecified classes on myfaces-api which also exist in
>> myfaces-impl, classes of myfaces-impl which are used for the mock
>> implementations of myfaces-test, or the biggest one: the shared project.
>>
>> An introduction to the maven-shade-plugin: This plugin lets you use a
>> dependency to another project and then at build time it copies all needed
>> classes to the created jar file, removes the dependency from the pom.xml and
>> changes the imports in the class files. Thus you work with the real classes
>> at development time and then at build time the used classes are copied into
>> the artifact and the development dependency is gone. Furthermore you can
>> make all kinds of alterations to those classes (e.g. change package).
>>
>> We successfully use the maven-shade-plugin in MyFaces CODI to reuse
>> functionaltiy between the JSF 1.2 and 2.0 modules. In addition, I have
>> locally already used it to fix MYFACESTEST-21: I use it to get the
>> AbstractAttributeMap and all its related classes from myfaces-impl to
>> myfaces-test. And it really works like a calm.
>>
>> However I have to be honest, one thing currently has a bug: filters are
>> only applied to the binary and not also to the sources jar (see
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSHADE-83), but I already provided a
>> patch and a test case for it, so I guess it will be fixed very soon.
>>
>> So if there are no objects, I would like to introduce the
>> maven-shade-plugin on myfaces-test at first, to show you guys how awesome it
>> is. Afterwards, and of course if you all like it, I would really like to use
>> it on several places in MyFaces. This would for example be the chance to get
>> rid of the shared project once and for all.
>>
>> Opinions, suggestions and tomatoes are welcome!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jakob
>>
>> --
>> Jakob Korherr
>>
>> blog: http://www.jakobk.com
>> twitter: http://twitter.com/jakobkorherr
>> work: http://www.irian.at
>>
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>


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