You're probably thinking of the IDEA plugins previously in existence? I never got them to work for me, and attempts to contact the authors went unanswered.
I'd endorse the MevenIDE project's work - I've taken a look at the NetBeans plugin and it is quite good - they also have one for Eclipse, JBuilder, and an IDEA plugin is in the works. While they invoke Maven as a sub process in some cases, it is all integrated quite well. For Maven2, we've focused on making it completely embeddable (so you have a Java API and it can be run multiple times in one JVM, theoretically). We need some more work and testing on this, but if anyone starts using it in this fashion it will definitely be possible. - Brett Inger, Matthew wrote: >Is there any plans to implement a sort of Remote API to ease development of >plugins >for IDE's? > >Right now, I think most IDE plugins are starting maven in console mode, >issuing commands >through the processes standard in (process.getOutputStream), and reading the >results back >from the process out (process.getInputStream). > >It would be helpful to have some sort of Java API which could remotely control >a running >maven process (which could present security issues), or at the very least >startup maven >in the current process space, and programatically control it (which could >present problems >if maven classes make any assumptions about only 1 instance of maven running in >a given jvm) > >Any thoughts? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
