Bug 253850

Summary:	Use Jars
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Anne Jacko <anne.jacko>
Component:	Buckminster	Assignee:	buckminster.core-inbox <buckminster.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1	CC:	adrian.skehill, thomas
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	252800

Description Anne Jacko

2008-11-04 20:42:15 EST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #252800 +++

Projects must use jar'ed plug-ins (with unpack=false) unless authorized by the planning council for technical reasons. Nested jars should be avoided if possible since it creates problems for projects that has dependencies to such plug-ins. The OSGi runtime is fine with it but the compiler is not able to handle classpaths that contain nested jars. In case only one nested jar exists, it is often better to expand the contents of that jar into the root folder (i.e. unnest the jar). If a plug-in contains large files that are frequently used (opened and closed), a jar'ed plug-in might degrade performance significantly since the file must be decompressed each time it is opened.

Comment 1 Thomas Hallgren

2008-12-09 11:00:14 EST

Buckminster use jar'ed plug-ins in accordance with this.