Mark Diggory wrote: > > On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Gary McGath wrote: > >> It's embarrassing that I should have to ask how to make a simple change >> to a makefile, but I'm finding Maven to be one of the most bewildering, >> overly complex pieces of software I've run into. > > > Well, it is different than most "Make" or "Ant" tools out there because > it is both a build tool and a distribution management tool, much like > Yum/RPM, Gentoo/Emerge, Perl/CPAN, or R/CRAN. If you can wrap your > head around that, it will save you some frustration. It is just a > different model. > >> I've added some Java code within dspace-api, in our own package. > > > We've moved away from suggesting that you add code to dspace-api or > alter code there, this is one of the reasons we aopted MAven, was to > modularize the codebase and free the end user from having to alter this > code directly and worry about "merging changes" all the time. > >> Maven sees that, with no problem, and tries to compile it. But for it to >> compile successfully, it needs to use a couple of .jar files which we >> have previously developed here. > > > Tell me a little about those tools you've developed? How are they > managed, is there a release cycle... I can direct you on how to install > them into Maven and adjust the build dependencies so they are included.
The starting point of what I'm doing is replacing HandleManager.java in place with our own code -- ugly but necessary, since it consists entirely of static methods. To make it generate real persistent identifiers, it's necessary to add a couple of supporting classes, which I've put in an edu.harvard.hul.ois package, and these in turn require some jar files. Should I be creating a new subproject for this code (other than HandleManager)? Thanks for any help you can offer. -- Gary McGath Digital Library Software Engineer Harvard University Libraries, Office for Information Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
