This reminds me of that quote - "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I?ll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems".
I'm not in favour of Maven. I can see restructuring the build somewhat for Ant (remember, the structure really comes from being built with a makefile, before there was an Ant). Cheers, Greg. On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 03:44, Jools wrote: > +1 > > I've love to see the codebase move over to a maven build. > > Over the last 9 months we have moved all our projects over to maven, with > great success. > Our build and release procedures are greatly reduced, and getting developers > up and running with their ide's. > > I'd be happy to Log a JIRA and take a lead on this, what do others think ? > > --Jools > > > > > > 2008/12/8 Jeff Ramsdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Niclas, > > Once again I very much agree with you. Dan's got a good point about two > > jars > > (-dl and non-dl) resulting from each service component, though. > > > > I know this will induce groans from some parties but Apache River would > > really benefit from a Maven build. The dependencies between modules are > > complex as is the generation of the artifacts. Maven would allow for a > > restructuring that clarifies the source structure while supporting the > > generation of composite artifacts. You might look into the Maven Classdep > > Plugin that Chris Sterling introduced several years ago: < > > https://maven-classdep-plugin.dev.java.net/>. It could make sense to bring > > this plugin into the Apache River fold, incidentally. Use of this plugin > > could also help increase uptake among the Maven developer crowd as it > > simplifies the generation of artifacts for Jini services. > > > > A huge benefit of a Maven-based build is the ability to generate metadata > > for most of the popular IDEs. This has proven to be incredibly useful on my > > teams and allows for a multiplicity of IDEs to be used against the same > > codebase. > > > > -- Greg Trasuk, President StratusCom Manufacturing Systems Inc. - We use information technology to solve business problems on your plant floor. http://stratuscom.com
