As Wayne suggested, you can use Maven to assemble and distribute an application.
For a runtime, using a maven repository makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't use Maven itself for this, but Maven's libraries for interacting with a repository. This is being used in lots of other applications, for example: http://karaf.apache.org/manual/latest-2.2.x/users-guide/provisioning.html - Brett On 22/12/2011, at 1:28 AM, Deepesh Garg wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if maven repository structure can be exploited to also > distribute java applications. Same repository structure may be used on > client side for installing and launching java apps. I see many benefit in > doing so (cleaner application packaging, minimum download, standard > directory structure, simple upgrade (much like Debian)). > Are there any good reasons why maven should not be used as application > installer and launcher? Or is it already done and I slept a bit too much. > > Deepesh -- Brett Porter br...@apache.org http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter http://twitter.com/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
