I would also be strongly infavor of moving to maven. I think Maven is
exactly what is needed to simplify the dependency management, and make
using a simple service such as "java spaces" easier to do without
getting lost in all the rest of the dependencies. I use Maven for all
my maven-dependent projects.
It is a task I'm willing to help with if the community agrees to move
to Maven.
Keith
On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Sean Landis wrote:
I would be in favor of moving to Maven. This year we moved about 30
projects from Ant to Maven. There are some gotchas though (disclaimer
- I'm not the expert). One that I am aware of is the artifact per
project preference of Maven that, as others pointed out, would pose a
challenge for the Jini jar service pairs. Another side-effect of this
constraint is how it interacts with Eclipse which does not support
subprojects well. We have found that some thought is required to use
Maven seamlessly within Eclipse. It's doable, but if you just do the
obvious thing you might have a lot of problems.
All that said, we have great benefits from Maven.
Sean
