RE: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Patrick Linskey
> >> Would it be ok to build three different jar files based on whether > >> the target was 1.3, 1.4, or 1.5? Packaging the different jar files > >> into one could be a post-build exercise. > >> Or a specific build target that combined the three jar files. > >> > >> How is the source code structu

Re: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Maven is pretty good at building, testing, and packaging for release without a lot of manual intervention. I think we would need to create a separate maven goal to repackage the jars into the final jar distribution but maven allows you do create pre- and post-goals to do just what you need

Re: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Eddie O'Neil
For sure -- that would be simples, but I have to imagine (and could be dreaming) that we can bend Maven to our will and have separate, individually configured / built modules that can be rolled into a single JAR file at the end. That keeps the number of JARs from exploding (Maven's natural tend

Re: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
On May 30, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote: Would it be ok to build three different jar files based on whether the target was 1.3, 1.4, or 1.5? Packaging the different jar files into one could be a post-build exercise. Or a specific build target that combined the three jar files. How i

RE: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Patrick Linskey
> Would it be ok to build three different jar files based on > whether the target was 1.3, 1.4, or 1.5? Packaging the > different jar files into one could be a post-build exercise. > Or a specific build target that combined the three jar files. > > How is the source code structured today? That

Re: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Patrick, I asked the maven experts at Netbeans day around JavaOne and they said that what works today is to define a separate project for each compiler dependency (so in our case the 1.4-only code would be in a separate project and the 1.5-code would be in a third project). I said that

RE: initial commit

2006-05-30 Thread Patrick Linskey
Hi Craig, Any further thoughts about maven and multiple language versions? -Patrick -- Patrick Linskey BEA Systems, Inc. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:17 PM > To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: