Hi, No problem for me if you want to add this new packaging support and add in maven core.
acr ? -- 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 >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
