Re: Is there any possibility to reduce the size of maven distribution

2017-11-09 Thread Kasun Siyambalapitiya
Hi Samuli, Thank you for the quick response. But what I want is to reduce the size of a given `maven` distribution (if possible) without losing the ability of performing a successful build so that overall size of my application can be reduced. (`maven` distribution is around 9MB) Once again

RE: Is there any possibility to reduce the size of maven distribution

2017-11-09 Thread Samuli Saarinen
Hi, Could you use maven wrapper [1]? It obviously needs to download Maven from the interwebs when performing the build though. [1] https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper br, Samuli > -Original Message- > From: Kasun Siyambalapitiya [mailto:kasu...@wso2.com] > Sent: 10. marraskuutata

Is there any possibility to reduce the size of maven distribution

2017-11-09 Thread Kasun Siyambalapitiya
Hi all, I am currently working on a project which packs `maven` distribution in itself, so that the programme is capable of performing a `maven` build if the running system is having `Java` pre installed. Since the `maven` distribution (apache-maven-3.5.2-bin.zip) size is around 9MB the total

Re: maven plugin testing harness

2017-11-09 Thread Stephen Connolly
I recommend that you use invoker for testing plugins. On 9 November 2017 at 13:07, Francois MAROT wrote: > I'm no expert at all, but just to let you know: last time I tried the test > harness plugin, I also gave up... :( > I think some advocate to use the

Re: maven plugin testing harness

2017-11-09 Thread Francois MAROT
I'm no expert at all, but just to let you know: last time I tried the test harness plugin, I also gave up... :( I think some advocate to use the maven-invoker-plugin to test in real conditions with much less dependency problems. You can have a look there:

Re: [EXTERNAL] RE: Continuous Delivery with Maven now possible?

2017-11-09 Thread Pascal
> interpolation of these special parameters must happen prior to the execution of any plugins That's exactly correct. It's why I built https://github.com/pascalgn/properties-maven-extension which is implemented as an extension and runs before any plugins will be executed. Maybe it can help you.