David Jencks wrote:
On Sep 12, 2004, at 10:35 PM, Bruce Snyder wrote:
I've been looking through the info on the wiki WRT installing, running, deploying, undeploying and stopping. These processes seem to be fairly terse when using the Maven Geronimo deploy plugin. However, the same steps for those who are not using the Maven Geronimo deploy plugin are very verbose. It seems to me that all of this could be abstracted by a set of Ant tasks.
Also, I've looked everywhere for the Maven Geronimo plugin. Where in the world can I find it?
In the geronimo tree under modules/maven-plugin
I figured out it was my fault about two minutes after I sent the original message >8-/.
I'd like to get a look at the guts of it so that I can create a set of Ant tasks to mirror the Maven plugin. Has anyone else thought about doing this? Also, what are some additional opinions on this topic? Am I just way off base here or do others also see value in such a beast?
I think you can reuse the maven plugin classes in ant taskdefs, or maybe you will have to wrap them to make them implement some ant interface. It's going to be moderately inconvenient to use with ant due to the jars you need to get into the ant classpath. Maybe you could build an uberjar containing all the dependencies. It's (fortunately) been a long time since I've used ant, but I remember that using the similar ant add-on I wrote for jboss was painful due to the dependencies.
Reuse seems like the best solution via wrapper classes. Are you talking about jars that must be bootstrapped by Ant? I'm not sure how this would fly, but I could drop the jars in the $ANT_HOME/lib directory. Can you explain this further?
Bruce
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