Hi,
No problem for me if you want to add this new packaging support and
add in maven core.

acr ?

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Olivier

2011/3/19 Stephane Nicoll <[email protected]>:
> No Maven committers/PMCs replied to this.
>
> Any insight?
>
> S.
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Stephane Nicoll
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently working on supporting the "application-client" artifact
>> type properly in the EAR plugin. Pablo (in CC) wrote a
>> maven-car-plugin[1] which is very similar to the EJB plugin but for
>> application-client type. Do we think it would be reasonable to add
>> this plugin to the portfolio of standard plugins? (if Pablo accepts to
>> contribute it to the ASF but I don't think it would be an issue).
>>
>> I am bit puzzled about the type 'car' since car is already used by
>> Geronimo for their deployment plans; <type>application-client</type>
>> would better fit I'd say (with a .jar extension)
>>
>> The problems I am having is that since we don't have an "official"
>> maven type for that thing and nothing to build it with Maven, I can't
>> detect these artifacts other than scanning every single jar file added
>> to a project to see if there is a META-INF/application-client.xml
>> file. Frankly, I am not going to implement a feature that will scan
>> every single jar file before building an EAR
>>
>> The plugin needs a bit of cleanup (namely the jEE version check) and I
>> don't know if the community uses this a lot but we don't cover the
>> whole spectrum of the JavaEE spec and it wouldn't cost us much to do
>> it.
>>
>> Can someone remind me how these "official" types gets added and
>> detected by Maven? Do we absolutely need to touch the core type
>> definition files or is there another way?
>>
>> Please let me know what you think.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> S.
>>
>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/maven-car-plugin
>>
>

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