Folks, I've just released (after a wee fight with the release plugin)
the latest and greatest Maven 2 Groovy integration modules.
This release contains above all other fixes and improvements...
support to *implement* Maven 2 plugins in Groovy! The integration
is... er... well, mostly seamless ;-) It works for the most part
just like the Java bits do, only they are Groovy... and thus tax your
fingers less, and delight your mind more (ie. closures, Groovy JDK,
AntBuilder, etc) when you have to slave away creating them for man.
And you can use Java mojos with Groovy mojos and get on your cross-
mojonation if you fancy a swing that way too ;-)
I wrote up a quick little guide in the same manner as the other mojo
development guides to help folks get going:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/groovy/guide-groovy-plugin-
development.html
A few other significant changes, first several modules were added to
support all of this, and thus I've moved them all into their own
groupId:
org.codehaus.mojo.groovy
You will need to update your projects to pick up this change. Also
related to this change, the main site URL has been changed to:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/groovy
And lastly, the syntax of the groovy:execute configuration of
<source> has changed slightly. The new style does not required a
<body>, <file> or <url> nested element to determine the source type,
the plugin will figure it out. The old style is still supported, but
will spit out a WARNING and the old style configuration will probably
be dropped in future releases. See the execute examples for more
details:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/groovy/groovy-maven-plugin/examples/
executing.html
Peep over the rest of the release notes below for other fixes,
changes and improvements.
* * *
Release Notes - Maven 2.x Groovy Plugin - Version 1.0-alpha-3
** Bug
* [MGROOVY-29] - Property resolving in the 'project' delegate is
not working correctly when run from the Maven reactor
* [MGROOVY-40] - The groovy plugin.xml extractor parses
out .java and .groovy mojos, which causes duplicate conflicts
** Improvement
* [MGROOVY-24] - When maven.test.skip=true skip groovy:testCompile
* [MGROOVY-28] - Re-package all Groovy modules into
org.codehaus.mojo.groovy
* [MGROOVY-30] - Fix dependency injection of the plexus
GroovyComponentFactory
* [MGROOVY-31] - Add ant = new AntBuilder() to groovy:execute
* [MGROOVY-32] - Maven ${} resolution of inlined Groovy scripts
is causing problems with GStrings
* [MGROOVY-33] - Allow optional handling of AssertionError
(which is produced by Groovy's assert keyword) to omit evil stacktrace
* [MGROOVY-34] - Hook up to the Plexus/Maven ExpressionEvaluator
muck for property expansion
* [MGROOVY-36] - Hookup AntBuilder's output to Maven's plugin Log
* [MGROOVY-37] - Create plugin development guide for
implementing plugins in Groovy
* [MGROOVY-41] - Don't use the metadata parser for .java
sources, the Groovy Java parser seems to choke on some valid syntax
** New Feature
* [MGROOVY-1] - Support mojo plugin.xml generation for Groovy mojos
* [MGROOVY-26] - Add an archetype for groovy-mojo projects
* [MGROOVY-27] - Split up the mojo support from the compilation/
execution support
* [MGROOVY-35] - Add fail() helper to GroovyMojoSupport
I've also updated the page on the Groovy site too with these details
and updated the examples:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+Maven+Plugin
Please file bugs if you find one, or a enhancement request if you
have one of those too:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MGROOVY
This is probably going to be the last of the alpha releases, unless
something pops up (of course), the next release is slated for 1.0-
beta-1. Which means its starting to solidify. If you have any
significant changes you'd like to see to the 1.x serious, please
lemme know soon.
Okay, enjoy!
--jason
PS. No fembots or sharks with freakin' laser beams attached to their
heads were hurt in the release of these modules... oh ya... groovy baby!
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