Using Maven with OC4J libraries?

Question

Well its my turn for a return question to the fine folks on this forum.
Is anyone out there using Maven with OC4J? I've been using it lately, but there's one area that I'd like to see ideas on how to best approach.
<p>When developing Ant scripts to build projects, I typically create a j2ee.classpath PATH and add to it various jar files from the OC4J distribution.
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<p>However in Maven, I'm not sure how to best approach this with the OC4J JAR files since several of them have declared dependencies in their META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Class-Path fields -- so they aren't really standalone JAR files. </p>
Take a look at the j2ee/home/admin_client.jar file and its manifest.mf:
<p>
Class-Path: lib/adminclient.jar oc4jclient.jar ../../webservices/lib/wsserver.jar lib/ejb.jar
lib/mx4j-jmx.jar lib/jmxri.jar lib/jmx_remote_api.jar lib/jaas.jar ../../lib/xmlparserv2.jar
../../oracle/lib/xmlparserv2.jar lib/javax77.jar lib/javax88.jar ../../diagnostics/lib/ojdl.jar
../../oracle/lib/dms.jar ../../oracle/jlib/dms.jar ../../lib/dms.jar ../../jlib/dms.jar lib/jta.jar
lib/jms.jar lib/connector.jar ../../opmn/lib/optic.jar ../../oracle/jlib/oraclepki.jar ../../jlib
oraclepki.jar ../../oracle/jlib/ojpse.jar ../../oracle/jdbc/lib/ojdbc14dms.jar ../../oracle/jdbc/lib
ocrs12.jar ../../oracle/rdbms/jlib/aqapi.jar ../../jlib/ojpse.jar</p>
So if I want to make use admin_client.jar in a maven project, I really need all the other libraries it in turn references -- and they are all specified as relative paths. If I wanted to load admin_client.jar into a local Maven repository, how would it be done? How would these paths be expressed/maintained?
-steve-

Answer 1

Kristen:
You can use iPhoto Library Manager to copy that album to one library so that all of the files will be in one library to use.
with iPLM you can split libraries up by roll or album or both. Jusgt figure out which library which albums will belong to.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.