[opencms-dev] Managing module libs and module events

[Florian Hopf]

Hi,

Thomas Göttlich schrieb:
> Those jars are put in the appropriate lib folder in the module and are
> published upon upload (i.e. copied to the WEB-INF/lib dir).
> However, if I update my module and the dependency version changes - to
> let's say mydep-1.1.jar - I end up with 2 versions of the same
> dependency in my WEB-INF/lib.
> 
> I also deleted the module but it then leaves the additional jars in the
> WEB-INF/lib and tells me that there are no publish history entries.
> 
> Does OpenCMS delete additional jar files if a module is deleted or the
> jar is not a module dependency any more?

It should delete those jars if you added /system/modules/your-module as
a module resource. I think this should happen automatically if you
create the module in the workplace but might be missing if you are
creating your module outside of opencms.

Regards
Florian