[postgis-devel] Re: jar in repository

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Mark-Cave,

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> With respect to the Win32 installer, which parts of the Java code do you
> feel should be included? I'm happy to include the main JDBC driver but
> it seems a bit excessive to include the EJB files. As strk suggests,
> perhaps it may be worth spinning the Java files out into a separate
> project so we could point users to download the EJB JARs from the
> PostGIS site if they require it?

The postgis.jar file and the postgis_jts.jar file from java/jdbc/ are
the ones interesting for deployment of java applications.

The *_debug.jar versions are build with debugging symbols on, and
contain the source additionally, so they're not of much interest for end
users.

The ejb2 and ejb3 parts are merely skeletons / examples that have to be
adopted and extended for actual applications, so I doubt their binaries
are of any use. And, additionally, the burdens for compiling them are
relatively high (needing jboss, hibernate etc.).

So, for packagers / installer maintainers, I'd recommend to leave them
off, or pack the sources of the complete java/ directory into a separate
-dev package.

AFAICs, the debian people already have three packages:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=postgis&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

Package libpostgis-java (the postgis and postgis_debug.jar)
Package postgis (common files, loader, dumper, docs)
Package postgresql-8.1-postgis (PostgreSQL-specific .so and .sql files)

Maybe that could be used as an example for other target platforms.

Thanks,
Markus

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