As long as a build tool serve its purpose, it does not matter to end user what it is. I have used Ant and Maven in the past. Ant is good when you have a simple project and little dependencies on other jars. I like the idea of Maven if it really does the job. It becomes really painful when it takes weeks just to build jetspeed from source.
I am not sure how good maven2 is. We can learn from the experience of other users of Maven2. If it really does the job as advertised, I think we should give it a try. Regards, Raj On 2/21/06, Randy Watler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]
