I found a couple implementations of a crazy classloader that finds jars inside a jar. I tested the 'zipfileset' feature of 'ant zip' which works well. It unpacks the outboard jar directly into the target without making a separate staging directory, and ran surprisingly fast on my laptop. So, jars-in-a-jar are a less optimal feature than they used to be.
Yeah, I know about the Maven plugin. Mahout uses it, and it does an INFO log for every stinking class file it repacks. Like I care! On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Chantal Ackermann <c.ackerm...@it-agenten.com> wrote: > Hi Lance, > > does this do what you want? > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/descriptor-refs.html#jar-with-dependencies > > It's maven but that would be an advantage I'd say… ;-) > > Chantal > > Am 05.08.2012 um 01:25 schrieb Lance Norskog: > >> Has anybody tried packaging the contrib distribution jars in the >> jar-of-jars format? Or merging all included jars into one super-jar? >> >> The OpenNLP contrib has a Lucene analyze, 3 external jars, and Solr >> classes. Packaging this sucker is proving painful in the extreme. UIMA >> has the same problem. 'ant' has a task for generating the manifest >> class path for a jar-of-jars, and the technique actually works: >> >> http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/manifestclasspath.html >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/858766/generate-manifest-class-path-from-classpath-in-ant >> http://grokbase.com/t/ant/user/0213wdmn51/building-a-fileset-dynamically#20020103j47ufvwooklrovrjfdvirgohe4 >> >> If this works completely, it seems like the right way to build the >> dist/ jars for the contribs. >> >> -- >> Lance Norskog >> goks...@gmail.com > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
