+1 for introducing maven archetypes for BE/FE components, and features. This also reduces time spent on unwanted duplication, and also makes pom files more organized.
Thanks, Senaka. On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Thilina Buddhika <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Since we have a lot of developers(both internal and external) writing > Carbon components and features, how about the $subject? We can create a > Maven archetypes for Carbon components and features. > > Currently people are taking a copy of the existing component and modifying > it. This has certain drawbacks. > > 1. People do not cleanup the pom.xml files by removing > unnecessary dependencies, etc. > > 2. If there is an issue/bad practice in one component, it might > be propagated to other new components. For example, when we cleanup pom > files, we saw the same mistake is done over and over in some pom.xml files, > mainly because they are copied. > > The idea is to give a proper starting point, so that they can start > implementing it quickly. Also this is a way to enforce the Carbon best > practices for a certain extent, for instance, it is possible to generate > the configurations for Maven bundle plugin. > > Any suggestions or objections ? > > Thanks, > Thilina > > -- > Thilina Buddhika > Associate Technical Lead > WSO2 Inc. ; http://wso2.com > lean . enterprise . middleware > > phone : +94 77 44 88 727 > blog : http://blog.thilinamb.com > > _______________________________________________ > Carbon-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev > > -- *Senaka Fernando* Product Manager - WSO2 Governance Registry; Associate Technical Lead; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com* Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://apache.org E-mail: senaka AT wso2.com **P: +1 408 754 7388; ext: 51736*; *M: +94 77 322 1818 Linked-In: http://linkedin.com/in/senakafernando *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
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