Thanks for the response drone. We are trying to determine what we can do to make this smoother. I think that a lot of people would like to see the plugin relax the war folder constraint. Specifically allowing a user to specify an arbitrary path to their war folder.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, drone <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. It appears, that it is possible to specify SDK location (at least > in latest) Google Eclipse plugin. So you could make maven to download > the whole SDK zip to it's repository and configure Eclipse plugin to > use it from there. > 3. This might not be true - it seems that gwt has finally made it to > the official repository: > http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/com/google/gwt/ > > the 2. point however is still true and this is the main problem with > Google Eclipse plugin. > however it should be possible to configure maven to work with war > directory in root.. (which is awful, i know..) > > I haven't tried this configuration yet, but it seems to me, that this > should work. I will try to come up with an example project, where this > is done. > > > On Dec 15, 8:16 pm, Miguel Méndez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here are somethings, that I'm aware of, that make it hard to use maven > and > > the Google Plugin for Eclipse together: > > > > 1. Require users to use an SDK (classpath container in eclipse) instead > > of regular jars > > 2. Force the "war" directory to be named war and appear at the project > > root > > 3. No official GWT artifact maven repository > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:35 AM, drone <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Regarding maven-gae-plugin - for now, the best way to adopt your > > > application is to copy/paste pom parts from one of the example > > > projects (plain jsp or gwt). It's not trivial, but not impossible. > > > Also I tried to document every piece of pom.xml there. > > > > > However it is true, that this plugin has become a bit stale.. on my > > > part it's mostly because newer google appengine artifacts did not > > > appear in > > > google-maven-repository. > > > > > I see now, that they can be found inhttp://www.mvnsearch.org/maven2/ > > > repository, so I will try updating maven-gae-plugin as soon as I have > > > some free time. > > > Also - gwt example is to be updated to use codehaus plugin > > > (mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin) instead of gwt-maven > > > (code.google.com/p/gwt-maven/). > > > > > On Dec 13, 6:48 am, Yoichi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Google App Engine has a Maven Plugin project. > > > > > >http://code.google.com/p/maven-gae-plugin/ > > > > > > Unfortunately there is no manual and I can't figure out how to use > it, > > > > what else may be necessary, how to configure them, what's the > > > > relationship with Apache Eclipse Maven plugins. > > > > > > There are sample Project trees from the Web site. However, that is > not > > > > enough. > > > > > > E.g. I can't see any new menu option to create and manage GAE Maven > > > > project, etc. For example, the GAE Maven Plugin should add a new > > > > Archtype in the Maven Plugin's Prlject creation menu. It seems this > is > > > > not the case. > > > > > > Yoichi > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > <google-appengine-java%[email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > > > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Miguel > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine for Java" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine-java%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en. > > > -- Miguel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
