Ramin: Most of my projects started as a clone of another project, but to start a project from scratch:
http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html#Starting_a_New_Project This looks like the ticket HTH! Mike On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:06, Ramin wrote: > So do I still need to run ant create-project from the keel-build > directory to create a new project? This is what I had to do before > with the ant procedure. If Ant isn't needed anymore, how do I go about > creating a new project using just Maven? I'm talking about creating a > folder structure and everything, just like Ant did before, where it > asked me for the project location and short-name. > > Thanks, > Ramin > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:31:12 -0500, Michael Nash > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ramin: > > > > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 10:25, Ramin wrote: > > > I'm not sure if I'm doing this entirely right, but here is what I did > > > on a WinXP system and the new Maven build procedure: > > > > > > - downloaded and setup Maven > > > - installed the keel plugin > > > > > > - created a build.properties in my "home" directory, which I assumed was: > > > C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\ > > > and inserted the following two lines: > > > maven.repo.local=C:/Documents and > > > Settings/<username>/.maven/repository > > > > > > maven.repo.remote=http://ibiblio.org/maven,http://keelframework.org/maven > > > > > > - navigated over to $KEEL_HOME/keel-build/example-projects/default and > > > typed in "maven" > > > - maven started to download a bunch of jars into my maven.repo.local > > > folder > > > > Sounds right. You must have defined the build.properties in the right > > place, or it would not have known to find the remote repositories > > properly. > > > > > ok, so I guess the files I need for the default project have been > > > downloaded into my repository. Now how do I create a new project? What > > > would be the maven equivalent of ant create-project? > > > > maven keel:war will create a complete default.war file (in the target > > sub-dir). You can then just put this .war in your Tomcat (or other web > > server) webapps directory, restart Tomcat, and the app is up and > > running. > > > > > P.S. I am not sure if putting my build.properties file in that folder > > > made any difference. Because I believe C:/Documents and > > > Settings/<username>/.maven/repository is the default repository > > > location for maven on windows anyway. I'm not going to mess with it > > > right now and keep my repo at that location. it seems to be working > > > fine.. > > > > Yes, your maven.repo.local setting is telling it to put it at the > > default location, which is fine. You can also leave that line out of > > build.properties and it would do the same thing. The critical line in > > build.properties is the maven.repo.remote line. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:10:13 -0500, Michael Nash > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Morning all: > > > > > > > > I've just published a new update to the chapter in the doc that > > > > discusses the new Maven build system. > > > > > > > > http://www.keelframework.org/release/HEAD/docbook/keel-doc/html_chunk/manual/ch13.html#d0e5613 > > > > > > > > You will also find on there instructions for initially installing Keel > > > > itself via Maven - I think you'll find this procedure far simpler than > > > > the old method of getting a whole CVS snapshot. > > > > > > > > So far on the "default" example project has been set up to work with > > > > this new build technique, but I hope to have the remainder of the > > > > projects converted today, as it's not difficult to set up. > > > > > > > > I will publish updates to this doc frequently, and would appreciate any > > > > feedback, especially if the instructions don't work! > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > P.S. One small addition already: There's a mirror of maven-1.0.2 at > > > > http://www.keelframework.org/maven/maven-1.0.2.zip, just for > > > > convenience. > > > > > > > > http://keelframework.org/documentation.shtml > > > > Keelgroup mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.keelframework.com/listinfo.cgi/keelgroup-keelframework.com > > > > > > > > > > > http://keelframework.org/documentation.shtml > > Keelgroup mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.keelframework.com/listinfo.cgi/keelgroup-keelframework.com > > > http://keelframework.org/documentation.shtml Keelgroup mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.keelframework.com/listinfo.cgi/keelgroup-keelframework.com
