"Nigel Magnay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I actually had a related issue - our project is comprised of many jar > and war fragments and, good though the jetty plugin is, it's helpful > when debugging webapps in eclipse when hotswap fails (which is > always), to be able to have it automatically copy changed class files > into the running application. The existing eclipse integrations (last > time I looked) seemed to concentrate on replacing the IDE compile > function with maven which is a total non-starter, because it takes > *forever*. >
Never used. > I did something simple in .net (mostly because when I go near the > maven codebase, the vast array of poorly documented dependences like > plexus scares me and I don't have the time to figure it all out), > but That's also what is refraining me ! I love using maven, I think the people behind it did a great job, but contributing on your spare time is somewhat challenging as coding information is lacking, particularly as you noted it on related projects. > I think a decent editor that didn't force people to hack XML would be > nice, as well as the ability to do things like > - detect possibly unneded dependencies Could you please elaborate on this ? Do you think about something like extracting dependencies from compiled classes and inferring unused deps ? > - "promote" common dependencies to a parent pom Something like easy <dependencyManagement> ? > - UI for setting up common plugins (compile, report, assembly) > Could you please elaborate on this one too ? BTW, did you try the pomtools plugin ? Regards, -- OQube < software engineering \ génie logiciel > Arnaud Bailly, Dr. \web> http://www.oqube.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
