Why not just contact the Better Builds with Maven author and ask him to copy and paste the whole book in wiki format on the Maven wiki?!?
On 9/24/07, Dennis Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can sympathize here. Maven is a great concept for the simple tasks but > is much more difficult when something is just outside the norm. I have been > tinkering with maven projects for several month and monitoring this forum, > but when it came time to port my own code base I find myself struggling all > the time. > > Mavens concept of declaration hides a lot of the "how its done" from the > developer. So if things don't work quite like you expected then you only > have the doc to help you. But I have found that even the doc is very > narrowly focused in the examples provided so it is back to the plugin doc > and many are almost totally useless to a NOOB. > > I think that once I understand the "how things work under the covers" the > light bulb will come on. But it is a big learning curve for some of us. > > cookie > > Rodrigo Madera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Denis, > > Will all due respect, do you really wish to just read a page and get > running > and fully understanding Maven? > Do you really say Maven is hard because you didn't understand your very > first plugin encounter, which happens to be nothing less than the EAR > plugin? > > Maven is a complex system that simplifies projects, but it does so with > concepts that need to be viewed. > You need to read the book. You need to read it so you will understand. > > If you're a fast reader you'll be doing Hello World in less than two hours > knowing what you are doing. > > Sincerely, > Rodrigo > > On 9/24/07, Denis Bessmertniy > wrote: > > > > That is. I haven't need to read fat books when I studied Ant, for > example. > > That is. Look to > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ear-plugin/ear-mojo.html#modules > > > > modules The ear modules configuration. > > > > * Type: org.apache.maven.plugin.ear.EarModule[] > > * Required: No > > > > > > What is org.apache.maven.plugin.ear.EarModule[] here? How I may > understand > > what I need to pass? > > Standard Maven plugins really bad documented. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nick Stolwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 11:17 AM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: Re: Why Maven is Hard? > > > > What documentation did you read? There are two very good books about > maven > > 2 > > (and they are free to download) > > > > 1. Maven the Definitive Guide (http://www.sonatype.com/book/) 2. Better > > Builds with Maven > > (http://www.devzuz.com/web/guest/products/resources#BBWM) > > > > Sometimes, the documentation for some of the plugins is hard to > > understand. > > But mostly, this are third party plugins, so the Maven team can't do > > anything about it. You will have to mail the team of the plugin. > > > > Hth, > > > > Nick Stolwijk > > > > Denis Bessmertniy wrote: > > > It is interesting why maven is so hard to understand? Why it is not > > > well documented? (It is all my own opinions) I haven't so much > > > probmlems with Ant, for example. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
