Thanks, Manfred and Adam. Still much to learn about Maven. I still think I give IDEA a shot instead :-) Sorry, Josh.
Peter Adam G. wrote: > You can also do it the other way round, so that ant will get the > dependencies from maven and copy them to the lib folder: > > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/f862b782de787bfd/fb5631472de76e6b > > http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqMavenAntTasks > > Cheers, > Adam > > On May 31, 6:01 am, Manfred Moser <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday May 28 2009, Peter Becker wrote: >> >> >>> While I haven't tried that particular combination yet, I suspect >>> you get similar problems to what happens when combining Grails and >>> Maven. Just today I decided to add POI to my little Grails >>> prototype and found out that adding the dependency in the POM is >>> just not good enough for NetBeans, I had to place a copy into the >>> "lib" folder, too. Otherwise all POI classes will be unknown to the >>> editor. >>> >> in a situation like that I would recommend to configure the maven- >> dependency- plugin to copy all the dependencies into the lib folder as >> part of the process-resources lifecycle phase and additionally the >> clean plugin to delete the file from the lib folder. >> >> That way mvn clean will remove the files in the lib folder but mvn >> compile or mvn install or whatever will pretty much as first step >> after clean copy the jars of all dependencies (including transitive >> ones) into the lib folder. Then you just have to configure your ide to >> look that. >> >> I have had good experience with this migrating from ant builds to >> maven build as well. Maven could at a minimum take over the dependency >> management with this with a simple mvn call from ant.. >> >> manfred >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
