So many people have found Maven a stumbling block to getting started I think that for all the benefits it does more harm than good.
People like myself swarmed to Jetspeed 2, got a little bogged down, have hung in there for a period of time (admittedly not helping at all but waiting for good persons to contribute and do all the work) and along the way lost focus on J2 and started to sniff around at other open source JSR-168 portals. In defense of not contributing I myself have wanted to find an open source platform that I can take advantage of and allow me to focus on business requirements for portlet / application development. Ant, with all the jars bundled, can be a painful download but we're all already using Ant and throwing another tool like Maven into the mix, despite is great features, hurts more than helps. Regards, Matt Quoting Randy Watler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > J2 Users: > > The J2 development team has an open vote underway on the future > direction of the J2 build system. For many practical reasons, it is time > that we as a community make a decision on what, if anything, we are > going to base the future releases of J2 on. In a nutshell, there are > three options: > > 1 - Stay with a capped Maven 1.X based system and its plugin as > currently architected. > 2 - Upgrade to Maven 2.0+, porting the existing plugin genapp features > to a Maven 2 archetype. > 3 - Stick with a plain Ant based build with dependencies jars checked > into the project source control system, (svn). > > As you might appreciate, this topic has many complex trade offs > associated with it. As part of the J2 community, we would like you all > to have a voice in this decision... after all, J2 users will have to > live with this decision just as we do ourselves. > > For those that would like to read up on this thread, here is one mail > archive link: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/portals-jetspeed-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please feel free to comment on this thread or the dev list thread. > > Thanks in advance for your feedback, > > Randy > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
