Ian
On 22 Apr 2008, at 05:53, Brian Eaton wrote:
A couple of questions:
- Anybody tried eclipse yet? I was able to import java/pom.xml as a
maven project into eclipse, but needed to add a bunch of dependencies
before the build would work. Am I doing something wrong, or am I just
a trail blazer? I suspect it may be both.
Have you tried
cd shindig/java
mvn eclipse:eclipse
and then import the projects into eclipse ?
This will generate the .classpath and .project files correctly for you.
When you want a new dep, add it to the pom and repeat the
mvn eclipse:eclipse
It also adds the transitive dependencies so is much faster than hand
editing eclipse properties. You can also ask it to get the source
jars and link them into the classpath.
- I'm hating on maven. Is this the best it can do, or are we using it
wrong? Things that should be simple, like updating a dependency for
the project or updating the project version number, appear to require
hand editing multiple pom.xml files in multiple places. I counted the
phrase "1-SNAPSHOT" on 14 lines in 5 files.
Dependencies,
We should have a dependency management statement in the base pom that
contains the version numbers of everything we use (except internal
references) so that we dont have to remember or update version numbers.
We might also consider putting all the standard plugin config and
repo information in the base pom.
SNAPSHOT
the maven-release-plugin automates the tagging, version change,
release process and deployment to the external maven repo.
Not editing required
When set up properly.... it saves a huge amount of time, and makes it
much much easier for others to use the outputs. No more chasing bugs
because you have managed to package the wrong version of a dependency
in production.
