I checked out the sandbox and changed directory to
sandbox/maven-reorg/engine/trunk. Once there, I look into the
Readme.txt. Bad luck, it still does reference "ant".
Ok. I recall something about invoking maven with an "mvn" command...
I first try a mvn --help ; nothing in the given options tells me how to
obtain a list of valid build goals/phases (like the standardized and
very handy "ant -p").
Ok, I tried "mvn" without any argument, and got:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
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[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO]
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[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
Project ID:
org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
Reason: Cannot find parent: org.apache.velocity:velocity-master for
project:
org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT for
project org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]
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[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Cannot find
parent: org.apache.velocity:velocity-master for project:
org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT for
project org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:378)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:292)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at
org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at
org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Cannot
find parent: org.apache.velocity:velocity-master for project:
org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT for
project org.apache.velocity:velocity-engine-parent:pom:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1370)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:821)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:198)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:583)
at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:461)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365)
... 11 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: POM
'org.apache.velocity:velocity-master' not found in repository:
Unable to download the artifact from any repository
org.apache.velocity:velocity-master:pom:1-SNAPSHOT
from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
for project org.apache.velocity:velocity-master
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:603)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1366)
... 17 more
Caused by:
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactNotFoundException: Unable
to download the artifact from any repository
org.apache.velocity:velocity-master:pom:1-SNAPSHOT
from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:212)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:74)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:556)
... 18 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.ResourceDoesNotExistException:
Unable to download the artifact from any repository
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.manager.DefaultWagonManager.getArtifact(DefaultWagonManager.java:331)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:200)
... 20 more
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Sep 09 22:13:32 CEST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/50M
[INFO]
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Same result with the tools subproject.
So I guess the maven build does not yet work out-of-the-box...
Also, I would like to understand why it was needed to split the
source-tree in so many sub-modules. Can't the build system figure out
which sources are needed for such or such target?
Claude