Re: Maven Concepts

2008-02-10 Thread Alexander Sack
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html -aps On Feb 9, 2008 3:25 AM, amit kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the difference between dependency and dependencyManagement? I mean > when do we use dependency and when do we use dependencyManagement

Javadoc plugin bug/issue reprised

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Sack
So I figured out the issue and I was wondering if I could get a little guidance. The javadoc plugin when it executes the javadoc:javadoc goal attempts to determine the version of the VM its running. I suspect its parsing the java.vm.version string. On the platform I'm on, that is different than

Re: Javadoc plugin issues again

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Sack
n site ? > > Damien > > 2008/2/8, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Any chance, does anyone have a POM snippet that has javadoc working? > > -aps > > > > On Feb 7, 2008 2:44 PM, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi All:

Re: Javadoc plugin issues again

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Sack
Any chance, does anyone have a POM snippet that has javadoc working? -aps On Feb 7, 2008 2:44 PM, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All: > I'm trying to wrap up our build process and I'm having again more trouble > with the javadoc plugin (v2.3). I ha

Javadoc plugin issues again

2008-02-07 Thread Alexander Sack
Hi All: I'm trying to wrap up our build process and I'm having again more trouble with the javadoc plugin (v2.3). I have a multi module project organized: pom.xml module1 pom.xml module2 pom.xml etc. In module1 (first one compiled, etc.), I have a simple pom that specifies some dependencies

Re: What value do I set M2_REPO to?

2007-10-01 Thread Alexander Sack
Your Maven 2 repository which on windows would be: C:\Documents and Settings\\.m2\repository etc. -aps On 10/1/07, siegfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been reading http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin/ and > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ide-eclipse.html and I'm n

Re: org.jboss.ejb3.embedded

2007-09-20 Thread Alexander Sack
Official repo for JBoss is http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/ If you can't find it use mvn deploy:deploy-file to install it in your local repo. -aps On 9/20/07, Érico Teixeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a repository that contains this dependency ? > > > ---

Re: Arterfact which is not in repository

2007-09-20 Thread Alexander Sack
How did you install it? Maven checks local repository too so you should not get a build error (maybe a WARNING or two). Are you saying when you run mvn install on your project pom you see this? -aps On 9/20/07, Denis Bessmertniy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I manually have downl

Re: Eclipse/Maven2 integration info

2007-09-18 Thread Alexander Sack
ng how i can enable eclipse to have same classpath as > maven. > > > > > > any help would be appreciated > > > > > > thanks and regards > > > marco > > > > > > > > > On 9/15/07, Carlos Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: How to run maven goals from Eclipse?

2007-09-17 Thread Alexander Sack
If you are NOT using Q4E or Codehaus then you probably create an External Application configuration for Eclipse. However, you could also use an ANT build file to execute Maven as well and execute it within the Ant view (see my other post in the archives with a sample). 1 - yes 2 - Just point Ecli

Re: Eclipse and Maven "best practice"

2007-09-17 Thread Alexander Sack
Thierry is definitely right that you can run into inconsistencies between the incremental Eclipse builds versus Maven builds. I've had to do occasionally some Project->Cleans to get rid of the red. Wayne I would DEFINITELY upgrade to an Eclipse 3.x product. I think in general you would be better

Re: Eclipse/Maven2 integration info

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander Sack
ROTECTED]> wrote: > > most of your steps can be done in Q4E by going to the "New project" > wizard, "Ne Maven 2 project", choose the archetype and fill in the > blanks > > On 9/14/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everybody: >

Eclipse/Maven2 integration info

2007-09-14 Thread Alexander Sack
Hi Everybody: You know Eclipse/Maven2 integration at this point can be very confusing. You have three plugins, two of which are ECLIPSE plugins that integrate Maven2 while the other is a Maven2 plugin that happens to auto-generate files for Eclipse. I wrote this below and I figured I would share

Re: Eclipse and Maven "best practice"

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Sack
Is there any reason why you don't use a Maven/Eclipse plugin such as m2eclipse and now q4e? They integrate fully into Eclipse's build and do autodependency management. Also have you setup a CLASSPATH Container variable within Eclipse in order to use your local M2 repository? See here: http://ma

Re: Maven Plugins for Eclipse

2007-08-31 Thread Alexander Sack
Dave, What I do for some large projects is use the Codehaus plugin to resolve dependencies which it does alright (it has its bugs no doubt but I find it usable) and actually use the Ant view to execute Maven. This allows me to essentially do similar things as an External Launch configuration and

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
e maven pom.xml files, they can specify the > license in them. > > Alexander Sack wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, how the heck would you figure this out? Seems > like > > this would be too complicated to do in software though I AM 100% FOR > > replacing corporate leg

Re: Compatible License Plugin - does one exist ?

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
Just out of curiosity, how the heck would you figure this out? Seems like this would be too complicated to do in software though I AM 100% FOR replacing corporate legal teams with a Mojo! :D! -aps On 8/30/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that I know of. If you write it, please co

Re: 'mvn eclipse:eclipse' fail problem

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
Mick Knutson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great. > > Now I have a question: > > Where does the plugin get the value from for the .project: > > common-a3 > > > Can it get it from (pom.xml): > > Utilities__Common-A3 > > > instead of: > > com

Re: 'mvn eclipse:eclipse' fail problem

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Sack
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/index.html -aps On 8/30/07, Mick Knutson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess I am confused, I can't find anything about the eclipse plugin to > create the eclipse project files from my Maven structure. > > Can someone help with the URL that

Re: Cargo issues

2007-08-26 Thread Alexander Sack
25/07, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/25/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have Cargo working? If so, could you post a sample POM? I > > would really appreciate it. > > Working to do what? With what container? You&

Cargo issues

2007-08-25 Thread Alexander Sack
Does anyone have Cargo working? If so, could you post a sample POM? I would really appreciate it. -aps -- "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Re: Cargo plugin not found

2007-08-23 Thread Alexander Sack
mvn groupId:artifactId:version:mojo > > Which becomes: > mvn org.codehaus.cargo:cargo-maven2-plugin:0.3.1:start > > Wayne > > On 8/23/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read two threads in the archives and did not see a real fix but I > can't > > get Mave

Cargo plugin not found

2007-08-23 Thread Alexander Sack
I read two threads in the archives and did not see a real fix but I can't get Maven2 to automatically download the Cargo plugin. How the heck is anyone using it? I'm just using: org.codehaus.cargo cargo-maven2-plugin 0.3.1 I also added the pluginRepositories as well in my

Re: Javadoc plugin help

2007-08-22 Thread Alexander Sack
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin:2.2:javadoc > and > mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin:2.3:javadoc > > Here are the other valid versions, I'd assume you've simply got a buggy > m-j-p: > > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-ja

Re: Javadoc plugin help

2007-08-22 Thread Alexander Sack
22/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking at mod1/target/etc. > > outputDirectory is set to c:\workspace\\target\apidocs but > none is generated. > > This seems like a real bug. Again mvn site works but mvn javadoc:javadoc > does not. Do I ha

Re: Javadoc plugin help

2007-08-22 Thread Alexander Sack
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure why its not working for you. > > Try "mvn -X javadoc:javadoc" and see what happens. You might to do > "mvn clean" first to clean up target. > > Also, how are you sure that "nothing is generated"? Where did

Re: Javadoc plugin help

2007-08-22 Thread Alexander Sack
> > Wayne > > On 8/22/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to generate javadoc using maven instead of ant and nothing > seems > > to be working. I have a project like so: > > > > Project > > pom > > Mod 1 &

Javadoc plugin help

2007-08-22 Thread Alexander Sack
I'm trying to generate javadoc using maven instead of ant and nothing seems to be working. I have a project like so: Project pom Mod 1 pom-mod1.xml Mod 2 pom-mod2.xml etc. I just want to generate javadoc for Mod1. Now I tried adding under a section the javadoc plugin defintion (a

Re: Building MDB's with Maven

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Sack
What are you trying to do? MDBs are just Java files that get jared up. You need to be more specific. -aps On 8/16/07, Mark Eramo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I have a question. A few of the jars I currently build with Any also > produce mdb's (message driven beans). I did not see a

Re: native2ascii classpath woes

2007-06-25 Thread Alexander Sack
25/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uggh, on a side note the plugin is breaking because of the profile used to add tools.jar. The FAQ for adding tools.jar is a very bad idea: http://maven.apache.org/general.html#tools-jar-dependency This assumes a JDK by Sun which may not be

Re: native2ascii classpath woes

2007-06-25 Thread Alexander Sack
really look for tools.jar off of JAVA_HOME (at least don't key off of java.vendor string). -aps On 6/25/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused Niraj. I understand that is the normal way I would do it in Java, how would I do that within my Maven pom file? -aps

Re: native2ascii classpath woes

2007-06-25 Thread Alexander Sack
t which are locations of jar files. -Original Message- From: Alexander Sack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:37 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: native2ascii classpath woes I'm using the native2ascii codehaus plugin and on windows it works fine, but on my Unix b

native2ascii classpath woes

2007-06-25 Thread Alexander Sack
I'm using the native2ascii codehaus plugin and on windows it works fine, but on my Unix box it fails with: --- Nested Exception --- java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.tools.native2ascii.Main at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessControll

Re: How to add file to war META-INF dir

2007-06-14 Thread Alexander Sack
sue requesting this RFE: > >> > >> <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-105> > >> > >> Thanks very much for all your help. > >> > >> Wayne Fay wrote: > >> > If you can't control where it is being created, perhaps you should

Re: How to add file to war META-INF dir

2007-06-14 Thread Alexander Sack
Can you give an example? Also, why can't you change where the target is produced? -aps On 6/14/07, Farrukh S. Najmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Alexandre, but I do not have the option to change the directory where my file is produced (it is under target tree). This must be a common need

Re: Mail on release

2007-06-13 Thread Alexander Sack
Wow, I was going to feel bad about it...but I was going to suggest using the antrun plugin to just email what you need, etc. Not as graceful but will do the trick and pretty maintainable. -aps On 6/13/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMO, this is more along the lines of something you

Re: Some guidance using EJB client dependencies

2007-05-29 Thread Alexander Sack
ent. Typically, this won't be very much. Regards, Marcel ----- Original Message From: Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Maven Users List ; Marcel Schutte < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:22:44 PM Subject: Re: Some guidance using EJB client dependencies

Re: Some guidance using EJB client dependencies

2007-05-29 Thread Alexander Sack
n could solve this. I can't use scope provided because for the ejb I need the dependencies to be packaged in the containing ear. Regards, Marcel - Original Message From: Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Maven Users List Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:03:51 PM Subject: Re: S

Re: Some guidance using EJB client dependencies

2007-05-29 Thread Alexander Sack
Remy and Marcel: Thanks! I saw the JIRA below and feel this is royally bad for 2.0.6. Guys, how the heck am I suppose to use Maven for projects that need to define ejb-clients? Right now I would have to write some ugly ANT code to do all the heavy lifting. When is 2.0.7 due out? I really need

Some guidance using EJB client dependencies

2007-05-28 Thread Alexander Sack
As per: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ejb-plugin/examples/ejb-client-dependency.html This does not seem to work for me. I'm using compiler 2.0.2 and EJB 2.1plugins. The compiler does generate client jars for me but I can't seem to use it as a dependency of type ejb. Everytime I try to

War plugin doc issue

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Sack
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war-manifest-guide.html The example of how to add custom entries is wrong - this should be changed to (as per jar): value The other way just doesn't work for me at all. Let me know, -aps -- "What lies behind us and

WAR plugin issue with classpath prefixes

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Sack
Is there a way to set the default classpath prefix in the manifest of a WAR? I can do it all day in a JAR using the tag but it seems the WAR plugin doesn't support this which to me would be a bad oversight. I rather not include the JARS in WEB-INF/lib and my EAR's lib directory (but it works).

Re: JUnit4 test cases using @Before, @After fail test?

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Sack
again, I really appreciate it! -aps On 5/24/07, berndq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Sack wrote: > Dennis, thanks for the tip. Kinda obvious too...damn... > > Okay, so can someone tell me what I need to do to FORCE it to use > junit4? I > specific junit-4.0 in my d

Re: JUnit4 test cases using @Before, @After fail test?

2007-05-23 Thread Alexander Sack
t method to another prefix, and I bet it will not be executed. Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Btw, considering that @Test works, I'm pretty positive I'm using 2.3 at this point. The only issue is the @Before seems to never get called. Anyone run into this before? -aps

Re: JUnit4 test cases using @Before, @After fail test?

2007-05-23 Thread Alexander Sack
Btw, considering that @Test works, I'm pretty positive I'm using 2.3 at this point. The only issue is the @Before seems to never get called. Anyone run into this before? -aps On 5/23/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom, Thanks sorry. Yes I have specifie

Re: JUnit4 test cases using @Before, @After fail test?

2007-05-23 Thread Alexander Sack
TECTED]> wrote: would you mind sharing some more information ? POMs, exceptions, test source, -X output ? As a general remark: make sure you have the latest surefire plugin... Tom On 5/23/07, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, is this a known issue that if I use

JUnit4 test cases using @Before, @After fail test?

2007-05-23 Thread Alexander Sack
Hey folks, is this a known issue that if I use @Before it will fail my test? I searched some of the archives and saw some threads go by about this. Is this still an issue? Thanks! -aps -- "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us." -Ralph Wa

Re: Using Maven to build a release distribution

2007-05-21 Thread Alexander Sack
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/ -aps On 5/21/07, Bryant Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm new to Maven and have begun experimenting with breaking my project into jars and WARs and EJBs etc. It seems like Maven is great for this. Is Maven also typically used

Re: Properties files in a WAR artifact...

2007-05-18 Thread Alexander Sack
Hi Nelz, Let me throw some ideas at you and take what you can. Here is what I do for all our internal projects: In the project's parent POM I have this: profile-db-postgresql org.postgresql.Driver someusername somepassword jdbc:postgresql://lo

RAR plug-in usage

2007-05-14 Thread Alexander Sack
Real quick, I'm building a RAR but I can't seem to get the plugin to include my jar that contains the implementation. Does the RAR plugin configuration go into the same POM as my JAR pom file or as a separate file like building an EAR or WAR? i.e. I have project connector pom (jar) rar

Re: versioning the generated EAR/WAR file.

2007-04-17 Thread Alexander Sack
eases). -aps On 4/17/07, Piyush Hari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander, Can you describe this more to me ? I am a new-bie ? Take Care, Piyush Alexander Sack wrote: > There is also no reason why you couldn't use a Manifest entry in the ear > itself to tag it via the jar-pl

Re: versioning the generated EAR/WAR file.

2007-04-17 Thread Alexander Sack
There is also no reason why you couldn't use a Manifest entry in the ear itself to tag it via the jar-plugin... -aps On 4/17/07, Morgovsky, Alexander (US - Glen Mills) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think specifying the version in the POM would do this using , thanks. This message (including a

Re: [m2] Maven from command-line only?

2007-02-14 Thread Alexander Sack
Eclipse defines certain dependencies in its plugin framework as classpath containers variables (see Eclipse doc). Basically what the Eclipse plugin does (and you can verify by looking at your .classpath file of your project) is create a dynamic classpath container that is connected to your pom.xm

Re: [m2] Maven from command-line only?

2007-02-14 Thread Alexander Sack
Yea I use it as well for exactly that (classpath container variable). Works great! -aps On 2/14/07, Thierry Lach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This Eclipse plugin does a decent job of consolidating M2 and Eclipse... http://maven.apache.org/eclipse-plugin.html It creates an Eclipse classpath co

Re: [m2] Maven from command-line only?

2007-02-14 Thread Alexander Sack
What I do which I find very helpful is the following:

Re: maven2, eclipse and hierarchical layout

2007-01-26 Thread Alexander Sack
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/reactor.html -aps On 1/26/07, Marco Mistroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all, i still havent' managed to use maven2 with eclipse where i have a parent project and few children project has anyone managed to have that setup working correc

Re: EJB3 with maven

2007-01-26 Thread Alexander Sack
As Marco is saying you don't need to use the ejb3 plugin. Just create a stand alone JAR to deploy under JBoss. Again, first read the "Better Builds with Maven 2" book which gives plenty of examples. -aps On 1/26/07, Vidya Mahavadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Marco, Thanks for your respose

Re: JBoss EJB3 and Maven

2006-12-28 Thread Alexander Sack
imple classpath containers pointing to the appropriate EJB3 JBoss libraries to link against). As for including them in an EAR, yes they are just listed as a dependency and javaModule. -aps On 12/28/06, Stephane Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/28/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: JBoss EJB3 and Maven

2006-12-27 Thread Alexander Sack
I'm not sure why you are using the EJB plugin since EJB3 and JBoss are just JARs. We use EJB3 and JBoss exclusively and I prefer the JAR plugin. -aps On 12/27/06, Stephane Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On 12/26/06, Vitor Pellegrino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > 1 - How ca

Re: Ant-Contrib foreach in Maven 2

2006-12-05 Thread Alexander Sack
Ah crap, beat me too itwhat he said! :D! I use ant-contrib too for other projects as well (exactly for the foreach target). -aps On 12/5/06, Haroon Rafique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Today at 11:30am, MAUGM=>Morgovsky, Alexander (US - Glen Mills)...: AM> I am trying to create an Ant

Re: Including an assembly as part of another assembly

2006-12-04 Thread Alexander Sack
this. I will look into creating multiple modules to see if it will solve my problem, however it seems somewhat overkill for my application. Thanks for your help Alexander. On 12/4/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I won't speak for best practices but typically you wo

Re: Including an assembly as part of another assembly

2006-12-04 Thread Alexander Sack
omplish what I'm describing? Basically, I just want to include my assembly jar along with a few other files inside a zip file. On 12/4/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick question, why can't you have two sub modules under your POM, one that > generates an assembly,

Re: Including an assembly as part of another assembly

2006-12-04 Thread Alexander Sack
Quick question, why can't you have two sub modules under your POM, one that generates an assembly, the other generating the final output with the other assembly included? (you get the idea) -aps On 12/4/06, Eric Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm new to Maven so forgive me if this someth

Re: EAR plugin problem

2006-12-04 Thread Alexander Sack
Try "APP-INF/lib" instead. I believe the BBwMaven book is inaccurate at this point. -aps On 12/4/06, Lars Rosenberg Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a problem with configuring the EAR plugin so it copies the depended jar files to by APP-INF/lib directory in the EAR file; the plugin p

Re: [***POSSIBLE SPAM***] - How to create multiple jar files from one project? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2006-12-03 Thread Alexander Sack
Yea, I agree...I don't see why interfaces should be dependent on implementations? What's the point? I don't see how you would have a circular dependency. Your factory classes probably produce instances of your interfaces. Your implementation classes would depend on those interfaces. Life is g

Re: Question about transitive dependencies

2006-12-01 Thread Alexander Sack
On 12/1/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/1/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And in fact, one can actually remove the transitive dependencies that are > unwanted during the build classpath by declaring them in the POM as > "pr

Re: Question about transitive dependencies

2006-12-01 Thread Alexander Sack
his build classpath for whatever reason (packaging, etc.). -aps On 12/1/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/1/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This maybe an artifact of the fact that many plugins use the classpath for > runtime constraints a

Re: Question about transitive dependencies

2006-12-01 Thread Alexander Sack
This maybe an artifact of the fact that many plugins use the classpath for runtime constraints as well. -aps On 12/1/06, Heck, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I couldn't answer this for one of the devs in our team, so I thought I'd push the question to you all for any feedback you could provide

Re: Maven command to run the main class of a desktop application

2006-11-01 Thread Alexander Sack
I actually use ANT to do this dirty work for me. Not sure if there is such a thing... -aps On 11/1/06, Dudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the Maven 2 pluginto run the main class of a desktop application? -- "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to wh

Re: EJB Building

2006-11-01 Thread Alexander Sack
ractices in regards to multiple ejbs. > > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Sack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:41 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: EJB Building > > Look at the Better Builds with Maven 2 book: > > http:

Re: EJB Building

2006-11-01 Thread Alexander Sack
Look at the Better Builds with Maven 2 book: http://www.mergere.com/m2book_download.jsp This has a whole chapter dedicated to Java EE projects with examples (downloadable from that website). -aps On 11/1/06, EJ Ciramella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I'm wondering is, if currently I have 6

Re: [ANT] Passing Maven implicit variables to Ant script

2006-10-31 Thread Alexander Sack
Manu, just thinking out load, though this may not be what your looking for, could you use some form of Then reference ${somename} in your ant build file. Something like that... -aps On 10/31/06, Manu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to do something rather simple: pass the

Re: Classpath Generation

2006-10-27 Thread Alexander Sack
maven-war-plugin module. Alexander Sack-3 wrote: > > Specify them as provided with addClassPath but also specify them in your > EAR > plugin under tags. That should put them in the EAR. > > -aps > > On 10/27/06, eric H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >&

Re: Classpath Generation

2006-10-27 Thread Alexander Sack
Specify them as provided with addClassPath but also specify them in your EAR plugin under tags. That should put them in the EAR. -aps On 10/27/06, eric H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an ear file -whcih includes at the baselevel all the libraries neede for the Application. There are se

Re: Preventing sub-dependencies from being included in an EAR

2006-10-26 Thread Alexander Sack
an excludes directly to that dependency node to specifically exclude those artifacts. For example, Ear depends on war, ejb, jar; war depends on logging; thus logging ends up in EAR. You should be able to exclude this via: ear/pom.xml war logging Wayne On 10/26/06, Alexander S

Re: Preventing sub-dependencies from being included in an EAR

2006-10-26 Thread Alexander Sack
Thanks David, that's what I did. Its a little odd that you have duplicate entries for the same dependency (btw, mvn shoots out warnings regarding override scope, harmless I know, but still...). -aps On 10/26/06, David J. M. Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Sack wrote

Re: Malformed manifest classpath entry

2006-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
Wayne, that seems like a different error. You shouldn't have Class-Path entries in the EAR's manifest (including Java EE 1.4) These entries belong in the modules within the ear, i.e. the EJB JAR's, etc. Though Max is technically right, its still ugly!!! :D! Alex On 10/25/06, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL

Re: Malformed manifest classpath entry

2006-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
Yeah, I did a lot of mail-archive.com searching and its a common issue. Transitive dependency tracking can be fantastic (especially for Java applications building), but for EARs its VERY dangerous since you are left with runtime exceptions to debug (treaded cast class exceptions etc.) instead of a

Re: Malformed manifest classpath entry

2006-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
lo, Could you please post your MANIFEST.MF file so we can see what "royally screwed up" means? Thanks, Paul Alexander Sack-3 wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > I did check the email archives on this one and I'm not sure what's what... > > If I specify a manifest entry su

Preventing sub-dependencies from being included in an EAR

2006-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
Because I'm using some of the Apache commons libraries, Maven2 is including some of their sub dependencies such as commons-logging which breaks my EAR. Is there a way to prevent this? -aps -- "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to what lies within us." -Ralph W

EAR dependency best practices

2006-10-25 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello everyone, I'm building an EAR and I having some difficulties dealing with common dependencies among modules. Here are some basic questions: 1) How should JARs shipped within my EAR be treated? (see below) 2) Why does Maven pull in dependencies not listed in any of my pom files? For some

Re: addClassPath issue within EAR

2006-10-24 Thread Alexander Sack
Ahhh you know I was ON THAT EXACT PAGE and I missed the classPathPrefix. Thanks though, much appreciated... -aps On 10/24/06, Rémy Sanlaville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/10/24, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Remy, thanks, that's perfect. I feel dumb. Wit

Re: addClassPath issue within EAR

2006-10-24 Thread Alexander Sack
Remy, thanks, that's perfect. I feel dumb. With that said, how do you find the classpathPrefix node? I went to the doc on the jar:jar plugin and see nothing. Obviously I'm looking in the wrong spot. I knew about the addClasspath prefix from the mailing list as well as the BetterBuilds book. B

addClassPath issue within EAR

2006-10-23 Thread Alexander Sack
If I have an JAR within an EAR that needs to reference libraries via the ClassPath manifest entry, how can I use but have Maven prefix each entry iwth a /lib (my defaultBundleDir)? So I have: my.ear: my.jar --> ClassPath entries that need to be ClassPath: lib/mylib.jar lib/mylib1.jar etc. li

Malformed manifest classpath entry

2006-10-23 Thread Alexander Sack
Hi Everybody, I did check the email archives on this one and I'm not sure what's what... If I specify a manifest entry such as: lib/some1.jar lib/some2.jar lib/some3.jar lib/some4.jar lib/some5.jar --> The actual manifest entry is royally screwed up in terms of formatting. I'm port

Re: A way to name jar zip?

2006-09-24 Thread Alexander Sack
Have you tried the maven assembly plugin? That should do what you want. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/index.html -aps On 9/24/06, Thomas Lindback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. I want to get a zip instead of a jar file. Is there a easy way to fix that. It is enough

Re: How to include dependencies in an executable jar?

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Sack
table jars personally so I'm afraid I'm not much help on this topic... Wayne On 9/22/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay found the thread (again my bad Wayne)...thanks Valerio... > > However, just like the last thread, this seems like a very awkward wa

Re: How to include dependencies in an executable jar?

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Sack
work, if I use but no ID, then I get name-null.zip. Thanks! -aps On 9/22/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay found the thread (again my bad Wayne)...thanks Valerio... However, just like the last thread, this seems like a very awkward way of handling it (an assembly pl

Re: How to include dependencies in an executable jar?

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello Alexander, On 9/22/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to build an executable jar and I want to include some of the > dependencies of my project in the jar itself for runtime. Is there a > way to do this? > try to use the assembly plugin: ht

Re: How to include dependencies in an executable jar?

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Sack
every week... I guess you didn't search for the answer prior to sending this question? It was even discussed just yesterday! Look at the thread titled "Creating a Java application" for some options... Wayne On 9/22/06, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm tryi

How to include dependencies in an executable jar?

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Sack
I'm trying to build an executable jar and I want to include some of the dependencies of my project in the jar itself for runtime. Is there a way to do this? The following page was somewhat helpful: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/examples/executable-jar.html But it doesn't dis

Re: J2EE Client Application JAR is not detected as J2EE module

2006-09-19 Thread Alexander Sack
ing about. ;-)) So actually today there is no need for vendor specific packaging, since all vendors support those "clean" packages. If not, it is a bug and should get reported. In turn, vendor specifics in the EAR and EJB modules are obsolete. Markus Alexander Sack schrieb: >

Re: J2EE Client Application JAR is not detected as J2EE module

2006-09-18 Thread Alexander Sack
wrote: Actually we ARE adding them manually but this thread is about how we can make MVN to do that automatically... Nevertheless, I filed an issue with JIRA in the hope of getting it fixed in the next plugin release. Thanks Markus Alexander Sack schrieb: > Thanks guysweird, I guess I

Re: J2EE Client Application JAR is not detected as J2EE module

2006-09-17 Thread Alexander Sack
section of Application clients J2EE 1.4 spec section 9.7 J2EE Application Client XML Schema. Ant has targets that can create these Application client artifacts. I also favor for building application client jar for Swing applications with Maven2. Regards, Markku Alexander Sack wrote: > I

Re: J2EE Client Application JAR is not detected as J2EE module

2006-09-16 Thread Alexander Sack
ere is actually no room for interpretation. You might want to read J2EE 1.4 spec chapter 9 "Application Clients". Markus Alexander Sack wrote: > I'm pretty sure the "J2EE client application descriptor" you speak of > is a > BEA only primitive and not generic eno

Re: J2EE Client Application JAR is not detected as J2EE module

2006-09-15 Thread Alexander Sack
I'm pretty sure the "J2EE client application descriptor" you speak of is a BEA only primitive and not generic enough to be included in the EAR plugin (please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't remember ever seeing this in the J2EE spec). With that said a light bult has sort of went off and perhaps

Re: WANTED: Suggestions on performing vendor-specific builds

2006-09-13 Thread Alexander Sack
Ronald, I have a very similar setup in my projects where ANT was used based on an if clause. In fact I wound up actually using ant-contrib to give me if/else type logic to make the builds more readable. Have you looked into Maven2 style PROFILES? A profile allows you to define a number of confi

Re: How to build JEE 5 EJB-JARs?

2006-09-08 Thread Alexander Sack
Well Maven doc isn't exactly great since its not really centralized. But as many have stated custom packaging part of the EJB3 spec never made it and as such, the JAR plugin is your best bet! :D -aps On 9/8/06, Markus KARG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexandre Russel wrote: According to

Re: How to build JEE 5 EJB-JARs?

2006-09-07 Thread Alexander Sack
xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"; > xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee > http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd"; > version = "3.0"> >

Re: How to build JEE 5 EJB-JARs?

2006-09-06 Thread Alexander Sack
I use packaging type "JAR" for all EJB3 builds as its just easier then trying to retrofit the current ejb plugin. -aps On 9/6/06, Alexandre Russel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to "BetterBuildsWithMaven.pdf" I switched from > ejb to ejb3. Unfortunately change it to jar. Alex --

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