Publish individual Liberty jars to Maven-accessible location

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Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment

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Publish individual Liberty jars to Maven-accessible location #16326

Open andymc12 opened 3 years ago

andymc12 commented 3 years ago

I am looking into the idea of making the Liberty JAX-RS Client / MP Rest Client implementation work in a Java SE environment. To do that, I'd like to have a Maven pom file that basically incorporates all of the Liberty JARs necessary to run a client (i.e. CXF or RESTEasy jars, logging, perhaps some config jars, JSON-B APIs/impl jars, etc.), but these JARs would need to be accessible to Maven - either published to Maven Central or DHE, etc.

andymc12 commented 3 years ago

Some ideas suggested on the call:

Publish all jars vs just enough for the Java SE client?
Consolidate client into single jar?
Extract client projects into separate GH repo and pull it in to OL repo via binary prereqs?

Andy to continue experimenting and work with Chuck on a list of JARs to publish. Extracting to separate GH repo should be considered a long term stretch goal.

andymc12 commented 3 years ago

Discussed on today's call - status so far: Andy identified 14 JARs that are required in order to get the Java SE REST Client working (MP Rest Client and JAX-RS Client - passes MP Rest Client TCK and a very small number of JAX-RS Client tests)

Next steps: (1) continue prototype by creating a separate OL project that will consolidate the 14 JARs into a single "REST Client" JAR - this JAR would be published to Maven Central. (2) create and socialize UFO as a new epic issue.

Also related - some users have been requesting other standalone clients such as JMS.