[jakartaee-platform-dev] Publishing Question Regarding POMs

[Volodymyr Siedlecki <volosied@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Can we publish an artifact if the included pom.xml relies on an internal (i.e. not published) dependency?  For instance, If someone tried to build this component from the source jar (by relying on the META-INF/maven.org.glassfish.web.jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl/pom.xml), is it okay if a dependency fails to resolve?

For some context: our next JSTL release will be built using our local version TLDDoc  (the last published version, 1.3, is incompatible with the jakarta namespaces). As we update TLDoc in our jstl-api project, the question is whether we should also publish our version or not. TLDDoc is used solely for generating TLD documentation (hence the dependency).

The TLDDoc Code Port issue for reference: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jstl-api/issues/195

Appreciate any help here.

Thanks,

Volodymyr