Question

I m trying to figure out the proper tools for managing dependencies between JARs. I have a Play Framework app, which imports a JAR (based on another project I m writing). This JAR imports other JARs, some of which have dependencies for yet other JARs.

This far, I ve gotten by with adding stuff to the build path in Eclipse. But when I deploy the Play app (export to .war, deploy on Glassfish), the necessary JARs are not included. I need to manually copy these into play/lib. Which is a pain since they are so many.

So my question is two-fold:

For the JAR file I m writing: what s a better way of managing the dependencies? Maven?
For the Play app, is there some way of avoiding copying stuff into /play/lib, and still be able to deploy without pain?

In the ideal scenario, I would like to import a completely self-contained JAR-file into the Play app, i.e. I don t need to add the JAR-file s dependencies to play as well. How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here is the easiest way to achieve what you want: http://www.playframework.org/modules/ivy (and you can combine it with IvyDE, an Eclipse plugin for managing dependecies with Ivy)

Answer 2

you may try asking in the google list, they are usually very responsive...

http://groups.google.com/group/play-framework

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