Hello again, since I am back from my vacation I want to raise this topic
again since no one really answered the last two times but it is a
pressing matter.
Currently we have the javascripts in good condition and basically they
are ready to be used, but we still have one issue which is not really
satisfiable in my opinion, that is the build process.
We currently have following situation, we are very modular in our
approach with the codebase following the one class one file convention.
The javascript files are compressed and bundled by the standard maven
javascript plugin, which works but is not enabled in the build process
and should be enabled the next weeks.
But there is one thing unsatisfying about this approach.
The standard javascript plugin is declared alpha quality and the build
process has been broken due to changes in the codebase at least once
because of it.
(Note the entire compression is stable because it uses the YUI
compression engine internally, which is supposed to be the best out
there currently)
We also have a javascript plugin which I am not sure what it does
exactly (i think the same compression and concatenation)
but it bombed out on me with an NPE when I tried to enable it, I have
not had time to investigate it.
My current question is, which one to use
a) Use the maven javascript plugin and live with occasional build
hickups until the plugin is finished
b) Fix our current plugin to a usable state so that it works within the
scope of our build process
If b) is the preferred solution I will start to fix the plugin so that
we can change it sometime this month!
Also another thing is how can we integrate selenium, I have a bunch of
selenium tests which currently trigger against the RI and the myfaces
scripts, but as I see it you cannot use them headless. Is there a
possibility to integrate selenium in our build process or shall we
simply drop them as subproject not triggered by the build as soon as our
codebase works to a satisfyable degree. (I do not want to check in a
RI dependency into our codebase)
Werner
