The folks you work with seem to be more diligent than a lot of enterprise java folks I know. Explicit classpath is useful in deeply silo'd enterprise environmen

The folks you work with seem to be more diligent than a lot of enterprise java folks I know. Explicit classpath is useful in deeply silo'd enterprise environment to get around multiple dependencies on incompatible versions of the same 3rd party jars. Often introduced while under the guns and then kept because maintenance dollars go elsewhere.