Hi, The first step for moving to maven is always moving everything into the maven layout and updating the ant scripts. This if you want a gradual migration. http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html
I suppose there will be one parent module, one main empire-db module, the struts integration module and some example modules Regards, Francis On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jörg Reiher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Francis, > first thanks for reporting the bug in the SampleConfig - that's definitely a > good start to contribute :-)! > > As Rainer already stated, the main goal for release 2.0.5 (and 1.0.5 of > struts extension respectively) should be to "mavenize" the empire-db source > code. > This doesn't require deep insight into empire-db, but a good knowledge of > Maven. So if you feel comfortable with Maven (or you want to get comfortable > :-) then this would be great. > To start I'd look into other Apache (Incubator) projects to see how they used > Maven. By "mavenizing" empire-db we could get rid of some dependencies and > we'd overcome the trouble with > proprietary db drivers, because the user could download them from the Maven > repository (we can't provide proprietary drivers in the Apache svn of course). > > There are a lot of other things that could be done for empire-db that need > some more insight into the code, for example: > - Implementing drivers for other databases (DerbyDB comes to mind as it's > also an Apache project) > -> a starting point would be to take a closer look at the *Driver* classes in > the empire-db project, maybe even starting with a copy of one of these as a > "template" > - Searching and reporting bugs and/or improvements > - Creating "extensions" for other web/gui frameworks to leverage the meta > data provided by empire-db > -> this is of course quite time consuming and needs quite good knowledge of > the empire-db components and the targeted web/gui framework > > So far, > I hope I could help a little bit > any contribution and questions are welcome, > so don't hesitate to post it here > > Greetings > jorg > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Francis De Brabandere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. November 2008 17:20 >> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: Maven support for the upcoming 2.0.5 release >> >> I might be willing to help out but I have not even tried empire-db >> yet... What kind of skills are you looking for? >> >> Regards >> >> Francis >> >> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Rainer Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > For the upcoming Empire-db 2.0.5. release we plan to provide Maven >> support. >> > >> > >> > >> > We are however still struggling to find someone with good Maven >> skills who is willing to help us with that task. >> > >> > >> > >> > So if anyone out there is good with Maven and has the time and will >> to support us, we would very much appreciate to hear from you. >> > >> > >> > >> > Rainer >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.somatik.be >> Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house. > -- http://www.somatik.be Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
