executing command maven site - getting error for _en.xml on my super-pom project

2012-05-13 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Team, I am getting following Exception, I don't understand why it's all of sudden looking for *super-pom-1.0.0.0-site_en.xml*http://mavenrepo.mitchell.com/repo/com/mitchell/maven/apd/super-pom/1.0.0.0/super-pom-1.0.0.0-site_en.xml from Artifactory. When i execute MAVEN SITE command.

Re: How to include WAR dependency in project

2012-05-01 Thread Daivish Shah
at 11:59 AM, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: What are you trying to do? It is unusual for a WAR to be a dependency. Even more unusual for a WebService to be a dependency. What are you testing? Ron On 01/05/2012 2:44 PM, Daivish Shah wrote: Hi, I have following

Re: How to include WAR dependency in project

2012-05-01 Thread Daivish Shah
PM, Stanimir Stamenkov s7a...@netscape.netwrote: Tue, 1 May 2012 11:44:27 -0700, /Daivish Shah/: I have following dependency declared in my UNIT Testing module project. dependency groupIdsample-project-ws/**groupId artifactIdsample-project-ws**/artifactId version${project.version

Quick question on Super POM plugin management usage

2012-03-28 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I am trying to use the super POM in my all of the project and seems like PluginManagement doesn't work like this way. Super-Pom Project pom.xml build pluginManagement plugins plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-javadoc-plugin/artifactId version2.8.1/version

Re: Which is the BEST Approach to define Global POM.XML

2012-03-15 Thread Daivish Shah
, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Maven Team, I am trying to find out what is the best way to define company specific GLOBAL POM.XML. Which each team can inherit it in EACH Projects. Can some one provide me guideline on that ? Is that going to be profile or just simple

Re: Which is the BEST Approach to define Global POM.XML

2012-03-14 Thread Daivish Shah
On 2012-03-14 1:29 PM, Daivish Shah wrote: Hi Maven Team, I am trying to find out what is the best way to define company specific GLOBAL POM.XML. Which each team can inherit it in EACH Projects. Can some one provide me guideline on that ? Is that going to be profile or just simple POM.XML

Re: mvn site:stage is failing on multi-module project

2012-02-28 Thread Daivish Shah
: site:stage is just a local preview of site:deploy, you need to specify a distributionManagement.url in the parent pom so links between modules will be consistent with the deployed site. HTH, -Lukas Daivish Shah wrote: Hi, I have project structure as below. maven-parent-project

Re: mvn site:stage is failing on multi-module project

2012-02-28 Thread Daivish Shah
to really deploy the site. HTH, -Lukas Daivish Shah wrote: HI Lukas, Which means if i don't provide Following TAG it will not work. distributionManagement site idwww.yourcompany.com/id urlscp://www.yourcompany.**com/www/docs/project/http://www.yourcompany.com/www

mvn site:stage is failing on multi-module project

2012-02-27 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I have project structure as below. maven-parent-project maven-ejb maven-schema maven-ws maven-ear I have all require entry to generate the site in all POM.XML I am able to execute mvn site and mvn site:site command successfully. But when i am trying to

Re: jboss-app.xml Auto Generated from MAVEN EAR plugin

2012-02-26 Thread Daivish Shah
Thanks Stephane On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Stephane Nicoll stephane.nic...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Do we have any guideline or any link from where i can read which all Jboss TAG supported by MAVE EAR plugin

One question about Multi Project Structure in MAVEN

2012-02-21 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I have a project with following structure. maven-main-project maven-ear maven-ejb maven-schema maven-pojo maven-java This is my project structure for multi-module project. And now if i don't want to publish any artifacts outside of this

Re: One question about Multi Project Structure in MAVEN

2012-02-21 Thread Daivish Shah
HI wayne, I think deploy approach is the correct one looks like in this case. But when we execute MVN INSTALL it will generate all artifacts locally or on our local cache correct ? Thanks. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: How can i disable those 2

Re: One question about Multi Project Structure in MAVEN

2012-02-21 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayne, Thanks a lot !! That is all i wanted to confirm with you guys. So basically i have to use deploy plugin to deploy the stuffs at repository and over there i can define what components i want to publish or deployed. And locally i will have all those copy available by executing mvn

Re: jboss-app.xml Auto Generated from MAVEN EAR plugin

2012-02-03 Thread Daivish Shah
Jboss TAG supported by MAVE EAR plugin ? Thanks. On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Stephen Coy st...@resolvesw.com wrote: On 03/02/2012, at 4:42 AM, Daivish Shah wrote: Hi Wayne, org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'TestEjbHandlerImpl

jboss-app.xml Auto Generated from MAVEN EAR plugin

2012-02-02 Thread Daivish Shah
I want to remove the DOCTYPE line from jboss-app.xml. I don't want this line to be generated in my auto generated jboss-app.xml DOCTYPE jboss-app PUBLIC -//JBoss//DTD Java EE Application 5.0//EN http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_5_0.dtd; plugin

Re: jboss-app.xml Auto Generated from MAVEN EAR plugin

2012-02-02 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayne, I already tried this and if i apply this TAG version5/version it generates the DOCTYPE and i tried manually delete that TAG and added the modified jboss-app.xml and deployed that EAR on the jboss 5.1.2 EA version. And WEBSERVICE able to generate WSDL from

Re: jboss-app.xml Auto Generated from MAVEN EAR plugin

2012-02-02 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayne, You are right. As long as there is a workaround, I mean user can put there own jboss-app.xml under application/META-INF/*.xml i don't care. And my meaning was JBOSS can support even if you don't provide this version5/version TAG in your jboss-app.xml. Then it should not be mandatory

Word Documents for Release Team and SET files of the application.

2012-01-20 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Team, I have couple of questions as our application has some thing other then source code too. 1) How to manage Word Document which we usually provide to Release team in order to execute our work orders, Which is right now something like this. my_application

Re: Word Documents for Release Team and SET files of the application.

2012-01-20 Thread Daivish Shah
So looks like there isn't any Standard defined by MAVEN for that.. We have to use maven-assembly-plugin in order to package it correct ? On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: 1) How to manage Word Document which we usually provide to Release team in order to

Re: MVN Site doesn't bring Project Modules structure properly

2012-01-17 Thread Daivish Shah
/configuration /plugin /plugins On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.comwrote: you list the javadoc plugin as a reporting plugin, either in reporting/ or in the config of the site plugin. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Daivish Shah

MVN Site doesn't bring Project Modules structure properly

2012-01-16 Thread Daivish Shah
I have project like this. MainProject SubProject1 --- SubProject2 SubProject3 And i am trying to execute MVN SITE command. I am able to setup all other section in Project Information Section. All sub module's POM.XML have SubProject1 entry for this, that's why i

Re: MVN Site doesn't bring Project Modules structure properly

2012-01-16 Thread Daivish Shah
://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/faq.html#Why_dont_the_links_between_parent_and_child_modules_work_when_I_run_mvn_site On 2012-01-16 21:04, Daivish Shah wrote: I have project like this. MainProject SubProject1 --- SubProject2 SubProject3

Re: MVN Site doesn't bring Project Modules structure properly

2012-01-16 Thread Daivish Shah
Plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/ On 2012-01-16 22:36, Daivish Shah wrote: Thanks Dennis for your quick reply on this... And how to associate JAVADOC with this MVN submodule project ? As all submodules has JAVADOC and i want to associate those with MVN SITE

Re: mvn javadoc:javadoc failing on only ONE Module project

2011-12-22 Thread Daivish Shah
HI Wayne, You are absolutely right, I tried using JDK 1.7 version and i am able to complete it successfully. But if i execute mvn -X javadoc:javadoc i can see it still gives me warning for my Annotation values which is really strange still looks like javadoc doesn't able to find those JAR in

mvn javadoc:javadoc failing on only ONE Module project

2011-12-21 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I have really very strange problem with my Sub modules project. Project Structure something like as below. TestPomProject - DAOProject - SchemaProject - EJBProject - EarProject If i execute mvn javadoc:javadoc command on these projects ( DAOProject, SchemaProject, EarProject

Re: Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-16 Thread Daivish Shah
solution. But i really appreciate your help on this to understand it properly. I always LOVE this MAVEN USER Group to resolve all my maven questions. Thanks, daivish. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s

Re: Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-16 Thread Daivish Shah
so if we can find some standard automated solution then it helps everybody in our team.. Thanks, daivish. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Barrie, That's correct It's

Re: Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-15 Thread Daivish Shah
COMPILATION error Icons in ECLIPSE so i am confused how to resolve this XSD related problem. If any other suggestion or advice will really appreciated. Thanks, Daivish. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s

Re: Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-14 Thread Daivish Shah
module1 ? No way to work locally without that ? On Dec 13, 2011 9:19 PM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Barrie, MainP... Carefully read your error logs and look for typos. Because you have sanitised

Re: Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-14 Thread Daivish Shah
statement of module1 package files in module2 project. Thanks, daivish. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: There is typo, true but I used some real time project. And names

Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-13 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I am trying to use Multi Module Project as follow : *MainProject* module1 module2 *MainModule *- POM.XML project xmlns=http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0; xmlns:xsi= http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xsi:schemaLocation=

Re: Multi Module Project Failing - Help Me

2011-12-13 Thread Daivish Shah
this exception. Thanks, Daivish. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to use Multi Module Project as follow : *MainProject

Any idea on choosing Repository - Archiva vs Artifactory

2011-12-12 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I am trying to find comparison on Archiva vs Artificatory but i couldn't find any good discussion URL on these specific 2 repositories. Can anybody tell me which one is good repository to USE ? and what's the reason behind that ? Please help me out on this one. Thanks, daivish.

Re: Any idea on choosing Repository - Archiva vs Artifactory

2011-12-12 Thread Daivish Shah
Thanks Pawan !! this helps a lot !! On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Gandhi, Pawan gandhi.pa...@pennmutual.comwrote: Below link may help you http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Repository+Manager+Feature+Matrix Thanks Pawan -Original Message- From: Daivish Shah

How to use MAVEN Generated Artifacts in ANT Build.xml file ?

2011-11-02 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, We are trying to convert some of the projects from ANT to MAVEN. Now I have a question about the projects who are not converted in MAVEN. I mean some of projects are still using ANT to generate artifacts and how to use MAVEN http repository dependencies in build.xml file ? Can you give me a

Re: How to use MAVEN Generated Artifacts in ANT Build.xml file ?

2011-11-02 Thread Daivish Shah
- From: Daivish Shah [mailto:daivish.s...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:47 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: How to use MAVEN Generated Artifacts in ANT Build.xml file ? Hi, We are trying to convert some of the projects from ANT to MAVEN. Now I have

Re: How to use MAVEN Generated Artifacts in ANT Build.xml file ?

2011-11-02 Thread Daivish Shah
, Anders Hammar and...@hammar.net wrote: I repeat, use Maven Ant tasks or Aether Ant tasks. /Anders On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 20:14, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My question was how to use MAVEN generated artifacts in BUILD.XML file. I think do i need to use something like

Re: How to use MAVEN Generated Artifacts in ANT Build.xml file ?

2011-11-02 Thread Daivish Shah
, use JDK 5 for building but use a JDK 1.4 for the actual compilation. /Anders On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 20:47, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anders, Maven Ant Task require to have JDK version 1.5 + and all of legacy system is using Jdk 1.4 only.. http

Re: MAVEN-EAR-PLUGIN question, I want to add some CLASS files in my EAR

2011-08-24 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayen, I am using EJB 2.0 and weblogic workshop 8.1 version. And my EAR has structure something like below. EAR | |--META-INF | | | |--ejb-jar.xml | |--weblogic-ejb-jar.xml | |--APP-INF\lib | | | |--Webservice\WEB-INF\ |--Webservice\WEB-INF\classes |--here all Webservice EJB class files with

MAVEN-EAR-PLUGIN question, I want to add some CLASS files in my EAR

2011-08-23 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I am using maven-ear-plugin. I want to add following ANT Script files in MAVEN EAR plugin. How can i do it ? So basically i have some CLASS files on my machine/ Which are located ..\workshop\output\ and .workshop/WebService/**. Also i want to add whatever under this directory to EAR

Re: exec-maven-plugin want to pass maven.dependency.classpath as a variable in my EXEC Goal

2011-08-19 Thread Daivish Shah
to choose this no other option left. Thanks, daivish. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.comwrote: Yes i tried using maven-antrun-plugin but i am not able to setup JDK 1.4.2 version in it. I am trying to specify all possible way to apply JDK version 1.4.2 but it's still

exec-maven-plugin want to pass maven.dependency.classpath as a variable in my EXEC Goal

2011-08-18 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I want to define property or want to use maven.plugin.classpath and maven.dependency.classpath in my build.xml. How can i do it ? Sample code is as below... property /property is not working and not able to read the values from my build.xml so please explain me how can i do it ?

Re: exec-maven-plugin want to pass maven.dependency.classpath as a variable in my EXEC Goal

2011-08-18 Thread Daivish Shah
Yes i tried using maven-antrun-plugin but i am not able to setup JDK 1.4.2 version in it. I am trying to specify all possible way to apply JDK version 1.4.2 but it's still taking tools.jar or JDK version, Which maven.bat file is using (jdk 1.5) I was using following code in MAVEN-ANTRUN-PLUGIN as

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-11 Thread Daivish Shah
Aug 2011 05:23, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried giving JRE and TOOLS JAR from build.xml file. But it's working fine if i run as ANT script. But when i execute as MAVEN it's

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-11 Thread Daivish Shah
can provide the ENV variables to your hearts content. Or use the http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/exec.html to fork ANT with the correct environment variables set. On 11 August 2011 17:06, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Barrie, I can't apply JAVAC in my BUILD.XML as i am

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-11 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayne, We can't move all projects to MAVEN at this moment so idea is to convert some projects from ANT to MAVEN and slowly slowly we can implement or convert all project from ANT to MAVEN. So this is just a start and to make people happy. I know this is not realistic solution but have to do

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-11 Thread Daivish Shah
[wlwBuild] [Build] Java returned: 1 [wlwBuild] [Build] Let me know how can i setup JAVA_HOME here ? Thanks, daivish. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.comwrote: HI Stephen, Use http://mojo.codehaus.org/exec-maven-plugin/exec-mojo.html to run ANT and you can

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-11 Thread Daivish Shah
What is the purpose for moving from Ant to Maven in such environments? The purpose is to maintain different versions and to identify which version of JAR or EAR has issue so we can identify it quickly. Thanks, daivish. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: We

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-11 Thread Daivish Shah
and Settings\DS100193\workspace\WorkCenterPlatformMavenProject\WPSEjb\WPSEjb.bat/executable /configuration /plugin Thanks all for your help. And special thanks to Stephen. -Daivish. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.comwrote: What

MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-10 Thread Daivish Shah
I'm using an ant build.xml that generates classes and compiles them with the tools.jar from the JDK. I am using MAVEN 2.2.1 version. JDK 1.5 to execute MAVEN. As maven 2.2.1 version supports higher then JDK 1.5 only so I have to use it. This maven-antrun-plugin doesn't allow to specify neither

Re: Help:Calling plugin from a remote repository

2011-08-10 Thread Daivish Shah
You have to create Profile for that.. If you will put following entry in your settings.xml file it will first look at the remote repository and then it will look for your local repository. Basically you need to create profile profile idRepository Proxy/id activation

Re: MAVEN version 2.2.1 and maven-antrun-plugin 1.6 want to compile classes with Java 1.4.2 version

2011-08-10 Thread Daivish Shah
, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using an ant build.xml that generates classes and compiles them with the tools.jar from the JDK. I am using MAVEN 2.2.1 version. JDK 1.5 to execute MAVEN. As maven 2.2.1 version supports higher then JDK 1.5 only so I have

How to Generate EJB 2.1 classes from MAVEN

2011-08-08 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I am using old project converting in to MAVEN. And i am trying to find how can i compile my EJB 2.1 Files using MAVEN ? I tried using following line of code in my POM.XML plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId

Re: How to Generate EJB 2.1 classes from MAVEN

2011-08-08 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayne, Thanks for your prompt reply. I am using .EJB extension file from Weblogic Workshop. My project is using Weblogic workshop and i am converting my project from ANT to MAVEN and i am trying to find if i can generate Class files from my existing code, Which has already SampleClient.java

Getting error when i am using maven-antrun-plugin for Weblogic Workshop project

2011-08-08 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I have some questions for maven-antrun-plugin. I want to use thing plugin to build my Weblogic workshop project and want to create JAR file for my EJB project. We are using Weblogic 8.1 and JDK is 1.4.2 version. I am using MAVEN 2.2.1 version with JDK 1.5 *I have some questions as below :*

Re: How to Generate EJB 2.1 classes from MAVEN

2011-08-08 Thread Daivish Shah
Thanks Wayen. I think best way for now is to use ANT command from POM as I want to support legacy application by using MAVEN and we don't need any change in existing project structure or components for legacy applications. Thanks for your prompt reply and explanation. Regards, daivish. On Mon,

Re: Getting error when i am using maven-antrun-plugin for Weblogic Workshop project

2011-08-08 Thread Daivish Shah
] [INFO] Total time: 7 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Mon Aug 08 16:31:51 PDT 2011 [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/16M [INFO] On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Daivish Shah

How to Convert Ant Project to MAVEN

2011-08-04 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I have some questions for your guys. As i am starting converting projects from ANT to MAVEN. 1). How can i create EAR file by using multiple Modules in One Project. Example : MainProject ModuleJava ModuleEJB

Re: Existing Network Location Access for JAR files

2011-07-25 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi Wayne, You understood me correctly. And our company is looking to use MAVEN standards in future so i think the idea to create custom repository structure will not be good for us. We have to prove some projects with MAVEN first and make them easy going with MAVEN. Then all projects will move

Re: Existing Network Location Access for JAR files

2011-07-25 Thread Daivish Shah
should read very carefully what he suggests and be sure to follow it. Ron On 25/07/2011 1:17 PM, Daivish Shah wrote: Hi Wayne, You understood me correctly. And our company is looking to use MAVEN standards in future so i think the idea to create custom repository structure will not be good

Re: Existing Network Location Access for JAR files

2011-07-25 Thread Daivish Shah
Yes you are absolutely right. Yes currently it's hard for debugging as we don't know which version of JAR is breaking the Environment. that's the reason we want to move with Maven we can know our artifact build version and believe me it's very hard to change these things when you have more then

Re: Existing Network Location Access for JAR files

2011-07-23 Thread Daivish Shah
/ErrorLogClient/1.0/ErrorClient-1.0.jar So here i can't use NEXUS or ARCHIVA. Let me know if you are still not clear. Thanks, Daivish. On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: On 22/07/2011 6:56 PM, Daivish Shah wrote: Hi, I have one quick Question

Re: Existing Network Location Access for JAR files

2011-07-23 Thread Daivish Shah
, Daivish Shah daivish.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ron, I am looking for something which can provide me to follow my existing JAR Location which is as followed. * Existing network Path :* * C:\networkfolder\ErrorLogging\1.0\Java\ErrorLogClient.jar* And i don't want to change

Existing Network Location Access for JAR files

2011-07-22 Thread Daivish Shah
Hi, I have one quick Question for you guys. I am having one issue to adopt Maven. My company needs following features available with Maven. I am trying to force my company to choose Maven as build TOOL. but they have one critical question for you guys. My company is looking to write something