Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Using jar inside a jar Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:46:21 +0000 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <871tmn6qh9.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87r3un58co.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <9hqb8wxcdlei$.z1cgb05uf3hv$.dlg@40tude.net> <8k8yahcsg1j8$.o5hkd2bta9p1$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net PGFs4vgsCwxL8htMT8+ZnwbOiK9ZC7EE2xxuDrYfpP+mcOBZ/j Cancel-Lock: sha1:jiuaWz+/Lq9Khsw51WnBpcBwu0k= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30821 On 23/01/15 12:12, Joerg Meier wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:10:35 +0000, Nigel Wade wrote: > >> I'm not a fan of the "big jar" concept. I much prefer to keep libraries in separate jar's. If a library class gets >> updated it's only need to update a single library jar, rather than every "big jar" which contains that class. > > Different areas, I'd say. For end users you almost never would want them to > update libraries on their own, unless your end users are developers. > Why not? End user, or system admin. I'd still not supply a "big bundled jar" unless there was a specific requirement to do so. When you get updates from Microsoft do you get a few small patched libraries, or GB's of statically linked applications each time?