Hi guys,
I have almost finished the move to Maven (maven.apache.org) of the entire
codebase and website.
Once this run is done I will upload the site to my webserver for people to
take a look at.. it should be up at
http://aalbes.hosting.west.nl/~erwin/xml-security
Maven has some huge advantages.. it's dead-easy to generate a whole bunch
of reports over the code.. metrics, unit tests and unit test coverage being
the most important ones. It's a definate advantage to see those.
Another advantage is that it's a hell of a lot easier to test different
dependencies.
There are 2 problems with it though.. one is that the xdoc dialect is
slightly different that Forrest used, but I converted most of those..
That leaves the much bigger problem of it being next to impossible with the
present directory layout..
To do this properly we would need to move all directories except C into a
directory called java.
This is something we would have wanted to do for a while (it makes a lot of
sense), but are we prepared to do it? Considering CVS has no allowance of
moving files and we would lose the history?..
I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but what are other
people's opinions?
Erwin
