Yes acr was what I was looking for. If nobody has any objection with that I will rework the plugin Pablo gave me and include it in the official plugins list.
Thanks, Stéphane On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > >
