I have read quite a bit and played a little with Maven: it looks pretty interesting. Its goal is to standardize jakarta projects developments (while Forrest seems to be related to web publishing only). It seems to be getting more and more acceptance: http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/powered.html
I installed it: very easy: download, unpack, set 2 env. vars and that's it! I was also pretty impressed by the first launch: it got a number of standard jar files it needed from a server (commons modules, logging, regexp,... most from jakarta). I did modify the sample projects.file for one of our projects: easy too. Now I'm trying to solve a compiling problem, but otherwize, it looks great. The documentation on the site is pretty good for a young project... I'll keep studying the tool, but it seems nice (and the people working on it seem to be bright...) Noel J. Bergman wrote: >Charles, > >Maven is a subproject of Turbine. Anakia is a subproject of Velocity. >Anything that deprecates Velocity is A Good Thing. > > > >>If there is an Apache option, I think we should take it in preference to >>non-Apache options. >> >> > >Apache Forrest *is* an Apache project. It is, FAIAP, a Cocoon subproject. > >Maven: http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/maven/ >Anakia: http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html >Forrest: http://xml.apache.org/forrest/ > >Anakia appears to be the most primitive of the bunch. Forrest is a way >better tool in the same space, and it is also an active tool. Maven has >other goals, but one of its features includes site publication. > >I wonder why the Maven folks and Forrest folks don't get together, so that >Maven can focus on all of the backend project management, and Forrest can >focus on publishing the web content. > > --- Noel > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- !try; do() -- Vincent Keunen, Ir, http://vincent.keunen.net Manex, rue Wagner 93, BE-4100 Boncelles, Belgium Our site: http://www.manex.be
