Commented by: @mrotteveel

Ran testsuite using the geronimo dependency and all tests pass. Did some more searching and found:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html :
> Last, any JAR file that contains Servlet API classes will be explicitly ignored by the classloader

As the geronimo dependency includes the entire J2EE spec, it is not loaded by the Tomcat classloader, this means there are the following potential solution:
* Release the jaybird-full package as well
* Release mini-j2ee.jar as a dependency
* Use groupId: javax.resource, artifactId: connector and version: 1.0 as dependency and leave people to get it themselves some way (eg by including http://download.java.net/maven/2/ repository)
* Use groupId: javax.resource, artifactId connector-api version 1.6-alpha-1 (as that is in Maven central)

This last one might be the easiest, but might give unexpected problems as Jaybird implements JCA 1.0

Commented by: @mrotteveel

It looks like the 1.5 connector-api is also available on maven central

Commented by: Roman Rokytskyy (rrokytskyy)

I think that releasing the jaybird-full package is a good idea. I am not sure about releasing mini-j2ee.jar, since it is "yet another j2ee jar" and will only confuse people.

Commented by: @mrotteveel

Switched to connector-api-1.5. We will release the 'normal' jaybird.jar to Maven with connector-api 1.5 specified as a dependency.