jetty-base 9.4 : run --create-files on Windows ?

[Tom Zeller]

Hi Rod/Scott,

How do you feel about about running 'jetty.home/start.jar
--create-files' as part of the Windows Installer ?

The reason to do so would be to download logging libraries to jetty-base/lib.

I'm looking at idp-installer/src/main/wix/IdP.bat where we unpack
jetty-base, and I'm thinking that's the logical place to call
--create-files.

If we don't run --create-files, then we can continue to supply the
logging libraries as part of the idp-jetty-base artifact. The hassle
there is we need to declare the version of those libraries either in
the Maven POM or in one of the jetty-base property files. Reason is
that Jetty looks for / pins a specific version, which is at the moment
behind what we define in the parent-v3 POM. Part of the hassle is that
if Jetty revs logging library versions in a patch release, our
versioning for idp-jetty-base is not specific enough.

Calling --create-files will download files from internet / Maven
Central or copy from the local Maven repo cache (~/.m2).

If we don't like the idea of downloading Logback and SLF4J from Maven
Central, I guess we could download from our Nexus repo, but then we
would still have a Jetty-Shib version mismatch that would need to be
overriden either in one of our Jetty modules or ini files.

Hope this makes sense...

Thanks,
Tom