Hi Eivand,all,
All of my J2EE projects are built with the Maven framework, but to-date I've only used
the ANT-based tasks for build instructions (i.e. use existing ANT configurations in
Maven).
You've peaked my interest, but what would be gained for users, like me, by using the
Maven Middlegen plugin?
An example middlegen task/goal in Maven without plugin:
==========
<goal name="middlegen:ejb">
<taskdef name="middlegen" classname="middlegen.MiddlegenTask">
<classpath>
<path refid="maven.dependency.classpath"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<middlegen
appname="${pom.artifactId}"
prefsdir="${basedir}"
gui="false"
databaseurl="jdbc:databaseblah"
driver="com.myJDBCDriver"
username="user"
password="password"
datasourceJNDIName="java:/JNDI-DS"
initialContextFactory="org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"
providerURL="localhost:1099"
>
<!--
<table name="ATABLELISTINGIFYOUWANT" singular="Table" plural="Tables"/>
-->
<cmp20
destination="${basedir}/generated/middlegen"
mergedir="${basedir}/src/conf/middlegen"
package="${pom.package}.domain.ejb"
interfacepackage="${pom.package}.domain.interfaces"
pkclass="false"
dataobject="false"
valueobject="true"
viewtype="local"
readonly="false"
fkcmp="true"
guid="false"
sessionfacade="false"
>
<jboss/>
</cmp20>
</middlegen>
<attainGoal name="xdoclet:middlegen:ejb"/>
</goal>
=========
I know some people live and breath the maven.properties and project.properties files,
but I personally prefer keeping with the ANT-based goal/task kind of configuration, as
it is easy to find examples of ANT Tasks that can be easily converted to Maven goals
without the need of plugins nor in waiting for Maven plugins to be kept up-to-date
with their related project (a fault I have come across in a couple of project/plugins
outside of middlegen).
Some people will definately enjoy the plugin, but in keeping with open-source spirit,
offering other solution(s) that already exists as well!
-D
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eivind Waaler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 9:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Middlegen-user] Middlegen Maven Plugin
>
>
> We've released an initial version of the Middlegen Maven Plugin. For
> instructions go to this page:
>
> http://boss.bekk.no/boss/middlegen-maven
>
> Hope someone can test it out. Any feedback would be welcome, some
> questions I'd like answered:
>
> - What are sensible default values for properties?
> - How should the properties be arranged?
> - Are you missing any functionality?
> - Is there a need for all plugins? Currently Hibernate and CMP are
> supported.
> - Other things?
>
> I believe this is a good move to make Middlegen easier to use and
> generally more available. Once the plugin is good enough
> we'll try to get
> a link from the Maven site.
>
> .eivind
>
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