Question: Smooks seems to scan all project dependencies - how do I prevent that? about smooks HOT 4 CLOSED

Probably it's taking a minute to start because Smooks is compiling the DFDL schema EDIFACT-Messages.dfdl.xsd. Try setting to true the cacheOnDisk attribute on edifact:unparser to reduce the startup time. As for the errors, I can't comment on them until I can reproduce the errors locally.

from smooks.

Thanks for the tip about cacheOnDisk- sadly it doesn't seem to improve initializiation time much in my project.

Here is a small sample project with a lot of dependencies. It just initializes Smooks, which takes about 14 seconds on my machine. In addition a lot of ClassNotFoundExceptions are thrown.
https://github.com/domids/smooks-startup-test

Thank you very much for your effort!

from smooks.

Your application started up on my machine without a hitch on Java 11 but I do get errors for Java 8:

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: META-INF/versions/11/module-info has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0

My guess is that one or more app dependencies are Java 8 incompatible.

from smooks.

To verify it works with Java 8 I created a GitHub action: https://github.com/domids/smooks-startup-test/runs/4441572234?check_suite_focus=true

The interesting thing is, it doesn't throw any exceptions. So I ran the tests locally with Maven and there weren't also any exceptions. It seems the culprit was executing the application/tests via IntelliJ IDEA.
Sorry for bothering you and thank you for the help.

from smooks.