dependency-management

How to isolate an API's dependencies from the main program where it is used ?

I have a system for which I am creating a plugin through a well defined access point. However the plugin in question uses some jar that the framework also uses but of a different version. The code is structured in a way where the code integrating in the framework (extending the plugin extension points) and the code doing the actual wor...

Sort maven dependencies in Eclipse

Hello, Just wanted to know if it is possible in Eclipse to sort Maven dependencies by alphabetical order? It's bothering me to have a list of 200 jars not ordered... :( ...

Maven: How to remove dependencies if they are already transitive?

For example, if there are dependencies: a -> b a -> c b -> c I want to remove the dependency a -> c, because there is a -> b -> c. I know there may be some strong dependencies which should not be reduced, but it's not relevant to this question. Example: In a.pom: <dependencies> <dependency>b</dependency> <dependency>c<...

NuPack Package Management

So when planning new projects is it safe to use NuPack to handle dependencies? When I say safe, will it stick around? Or is it going to just be a hyped project that dies (i.e. Google Wave)? Is there really a place, or need for dependency management in .NET? If not, what is the recommended way to handle dependencies? ...

Need presentation materials for convincing a customer to use Maven

My customer needs a more organized inventory of all 3rd-party libraries (such as JAR files) that are used in production for their projects. I am involved with a number of their Java-based projects. Their inventory has not been consistently maintained in the past and the time has come to account for all the libraries that are currently be...

Is there a Perl equivalent of Buildout or RVM?

I've been using Python's Buildout for a while and I really like it. My company has a lot of systems developed in Perl and I'm wondering if there is something similar to either Python's Buildout or Ruby's RVM available for Perl. My goal is to be able to automate deployments, development environment setup, and manage dependencies. ...

Dependency/NDepend type tools for VB6

This question talks about Vb6/.Net but all the answers address the .Net aspects but not the VB6 aspects. Would anyone know of tools that allow a simillar kind of graphing/dependency try to be created for VB6 apps. I assume that it would have be done from source. ...

Using Ivy, Maven and the Issue with POMs

I have been looking at and playing around with IVY of late for a new project. I know that there are two camps on this topic and a lot of reasons people choose one or the other. This question is not focused on that. What I am interested in is when I use IVY to say get the Spring Frame using the Maven 2 repository I get a Ton of Jar file...

How to deploy OSGi apps and dependencies?

OSGi seems to have an excellent benefit of having small deployable artifacts by not wrapping dozens of JAR dependencies into a lib directory. However, I can't find anything that tells me an easy, reliable way to deploy dependencies to a container. For instance, I have an application that uses CXF and several Spring subprojects. If I need...

Keeping a library dependency-free

I have a small Utility library containing some useful utility methods which have been fully unit-tested. At the moment, my library has no external dependencies. I am toying with the idea of adding logging to my classes which might be useful for debugging purposes. But this would mean bundling logging libraries along with my project. My ...