Could eu.chargetime.ocpp:common:1.0.1 drop off redundant dependencies?

[Celebrate-future]

Hi! I found the pom file of project eu.chargetime.ocpp:common:1.0.1 introduced 13 dependencies. However, among them, 4 libraries (30%) are not used by your project. I list the redundant dependencies below (labelled as red ones in the figure):

Redundant dependencies

javax.activation:activation:jar:1.1:compile
javax.xml.soap:javax.xml.soap-api:jar:1.4.0:compile
javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:jar:2.1:compile
javax.xml.stream:stax-api:jar:1.0-2:compile

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Removing the redundant dependencies can reduce the size of project and prevent potential dependency conflict issues (i.e., multiple versions of the same library). More importantly, one of the redundant dependencies javax.activation:activation:jar:1.1:compile incorporates an incompatible license COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) V1.0 (COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) V1.0 cannot be used by the project with license MIT License), one of the redundant dependencies javax.xml.stream:stax-api:jar:1.0-2:compile incorporates an incompatible license COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) VERSION 1.0 (COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) VERSION 1.0 cannot be used by the project with license MIT License). As such, I suggest a refactoring operation for eu.chargetime.ocpp:common:1.0.1’s pom file.

The attached PR helps resolve the reported problem. It is safe to remove the unused libraries (we considered Java reflection relations when analyzing the dependencies). These changes have passed eu.chargetime.ocpp:common:1.0.1’s maven tests.

Best regards

[TVolden]

Hi @Celebrate-future,

Thank you for the contribution and sorry for my slow response time.

I can see that the Java CI Maven job failed (I had to start it manually for some reason).
It looks like the soap and bind dependencies causes some problems for the compiler.

I like that you want to clean up dependencies, I just don't have much time to assist you at the moment. Can I get you to investigate the failing classes and see if they could be resolved. Any help is deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,
Thomas Volden

[Celebrate-future]

Hi @Celebrate-future,

Thank you for the contribution and sorry for my slow response time.

I can see that the Java CI Maven job failed (I had to start it manually for some reason). It looks like the soap and bind dependencies causes some problems for the compiler.

I like that you want to clean up dependencies, I just don't have much time to assist you at the moment. Can I get you to investigate the failing classes and see if they could be resolved. Any help is deeply appreciated.

Sincerely, Thomas Volden

These changes have passed maven tests but I don't know why Java Ci failed

[jmluy]

@Celebrate-future Java 11 dropped support for the required libraries which were provided by those other dependencies. Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/54574003, you can just replace the libraries?