ok, with tzdata I have better idea. the Constants.java is almost done already. the next big thing is the populators and invokers. the AnnotationBinder.java has hardcoded paths which makes life just a bit harder. overall the maven stuff will be first less efficient than what ant does, like the ant build has a lot of conditions which I just do not have in maven (maven just executes one phase after the other).
about ruby-maven: I usually check in the pom.xml which ruby-maven generates as well, i.e. any user who has just maven installed can use the build system. only when you need to work on the build system you need ruby-maven to translate the pom.rb (Mavenfile) to pom.xml (and then ruby maven executes proper maven with that pom.xml) - so to say it is just a thin wrapper with ruby DSL around maven. starting jruby of the build is the tricky part - I guess I need to copy the jars into the right place. - christian
