[midPoint] Groovy and Apache commons

[Radovan Semancik]

Hi,

Apache commons lang should be already available. We are using that 
almost everywhere. So just import the classes in your script. Other 
Apache Common libraries are sometimes used. But generally we try to keep 
dependencies to the minimum.

If the library that you wan is not included then there is no extra 
mechanism in midPoint to include extra library. You have to use the 
methods provided by the usual development environment. I see two 
options: add the library to server (tomcat) class path or create a 
custom midPoint build with that library included.

However, a word of warning: adding new dependency to an existing project 
such as midPoint can be risky. This library may already be used in 
midPoint or tomcat, but there may be a different version than the one 
that you are trying to add. Or that library may be a dependency of some 
other library used by midPoint. Your library may interfere with inner 
classloaders (e.g. tomcat application classloader or connector 
classloader in ConnId). Strange things may happen. Use at your own risk. 
Expect the unexpected. Dependency management is one of the hardest and 
ugliest parts of software development. That's the reason we try to keep 
the number of dependencies down. We already have too many of them and 
this not not a trivial task to manage.

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com


On 01/15/2017 08:02 PM, Wojciech Staszewski wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Just a quick question:
>
> I want to use some methods from Apache Commons library in Groovy scripts in MidPoint.
> Where should I copy the jar file to make it visible?
>
> Thanks
> Wojciech Staszewski
> www.skygge.com
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