The maven-shade-plugin (yes, yes, peter, I know it's maven and this is the ANT list) is used to take jar files and reprocess them. You can relocate packages, as well as mask class names. The main use-cases are:
1. Bundling your dependencies to produce an uber jar which will be safe in the presence of other versions of its dependencies. Eg what is done in maven-ant-tasks; and animalsniffer-ant-tasks where I shaded ASM so that another version will not cause class loader issues 2. Hiding the implementation classes of an API by moving the non-contract to a random package name every build, thus preventing people relying on private classes that haber to be public (OSGi removes the need for this if you have an OSGi container handy) Hope that helps. - Stephen P.S. Books On 1 Nov 2010 23:47, "Peter Reilly" <peter.kitt.rei...@gmail.com> wrote: It would be good to understand one word in three of that ;-) Peter On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > You co... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-u...
