Petteri Räty

MX4J is an open source implementation of the JMX and JMX Remote API (JSR 160) specifications. The alternatives for mx4j are sun-jmx, which is fetch restricted, and 1.5 jdks where jmx is integrated into the JDK. Because of the fetch restriction a decision was made a while ago to use the OSS implementation. Because of the mx4j-tools that came with the dev-java/mx4j package the deptree was quite huge. For this reason wltjr added the java5 use flag to Tomcat. This use flag avoided depending on stuff that is provided by 1.5 jdks any way. Last Thursday this problem was solved for good by using the solution from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152924. Now the latest ~x86 versions of dev-java/commons-modeler and www-servers/tomcat depend on the new dev-java/mx4j-core that has very minimal dependencies. If you are using ~arch, upgrading to these versions might help you clean some java packages with emerge -a --depclean.

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