Thanks, Dennis. That helps and I agree with your arguments for inheritence in genera;. But why a Jakarta parent? And can you answer the second question about addressing? I am -0 on doing anything that cements "Jakarta" into the namespace above commons artifacts. Sorry if this has been discussed and agreed and I just missed it. Phil
________________________________ From: Dennis Lundberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 8/11/2006 9:36 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: svn commit: r430653 - /jakarta/jakarta-build/trunk/pom.xml Phil Steitz wrote: > Henri Yandell wrote: >> First few commit messages bounced on this btw, until I fixed that up. >> It's a maven2 > Hen, > > Can you enlighten the rest of us as to what this is for and what, if > any, implications it has on how we address maven2 artifacts originating > in jakarta projects? > > Phil <snip/> The purpose of having a parent pom is to reduce the amount of information you need to put in the pom of a specific project. It also makes sure that all projects us the *same* information for certain things. These things are put in the parent. An example of this is which plugins *all* projects must use. Each project can then add more plugins if they so desire. Now I know some of you are preparing to throw in arguments about how we tried to do this with Maven 1 and it failed. Before you do there is one crucial difference. In Maven 1 the parent had to reside somewhere within the same file system as your project. In Maven 2 the parent pom is published to a Maven repository. It is then downloaded like any other artifact by Maven automatically. So there will be no need to check out jakarta-build from svn and putting it in the exact correct location on your own machine. -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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