Rename JAR to marklogic-client-api-M.m.p.jar

[jmakeig]

Today, the Java Client API is packaged as java-client-api-M.m.p.jar, for Major version, minor , patch. This makes it difficult to recognize, for example, in the classpath list of an IDE. A developer is likely looking for marklogic in the name somewhere. (It’s obvious that it’s Java already.)

Update the artifact (and its references in Maven et al) to be marklogic-client-api-M.m.p.jar.

Some relevant external examples:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
    <artifactId>mongodb-driver</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>
  <artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.oracle.jdbc</groupId>
  <artifactId>ojdbc7</artifactId>
  <version>12.1.0.2</version>
</dependency>

[sammefford]

One thing to note is that this will shift our mvnrepository history away from https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.marklogic/java-client-api and instead we'll need to create https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.marklogic/marklogic-client-api

[kcoleman-marklogic]

I guess Java gets to be THE Marklogic client API because we don't ever put the Node.js client distribution in maven?

[sammefford]

That makes sense to me. And if we want to put XCC into maven, we can call it XCC . . .

[jmakeig]

I guess Java gets to be THE Marklogic client API because we don't ever put the Node.js client distribution in maven?

Yes, npm is Node.js’s Maven equivalent.

One thing to note is that this will shift our mvnrepository history away from https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.marklogic/java-client-api

Can we edit that page with a link to the new one? And vice versa?

[jmakeig]

Note also, that the version string has changed from a hyphen to a dot to separate the minor and the patch. This aligns better with generally accepted semver.

[sammefford]

Can we edit that page with a link to the new one? And vice versa?

Not that I'm aware of. The page is auto-generated.

Note also, that the version string has changed from a hyphen to a dot to separate the minor and the patch. This aligns better with generally accepted semver.

The version string has changed in the description on this issue. But using dots to separate the minor and the patch versions has been a part of the java-client-api releases since we started on github.

[grechaw]

Right now, the project name here in github, the jar name, and maven names all align. I think that's a plus.

It also makes a project look fickle if you go to a page like this and after just a couple of releases it looks gone:

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.marklogic/java-client-api