Yes, that's it!
Thanks!
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:49:10AM -0400, Glenn A. McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Christian Willy Asmussen wrote:
>
> > Maybe, if the logic for the maven.war.xxxBuildFile and
> > maven.war.xxxBuildTarget is implemented abstractly, it could become
> > maven.yyy.xxxBuildFile and maven.yyy.xxxBuildTarget and with yyy beeing
> > maven targets (doc,site,etc) solving my previously posted question about
> > calling project targets from maven:* targets.
>
> I think Jason has a grand scheme for a generic extension mechanism, but
> I'm not sure what it is. I simply patterned the hooks after what he had
> done for preparing source in the build-maven.xml file.
>
> That being said, its worth looking at. Maybe I'll see what I can do to
> abstract this out.
>
> > One thing that seems very important to me is to "forward" some kind of
> > reference to the project classpath build from the set of <depencency> jars
> > to the target called. This would avoid having to set the classpath by hand
> > on several diferent files.
>
> Good point. Currently, Ant does not inherit references (which is why we
> have to go through parsing the project.xml file for EVERY build-*.xml
> file) when using <ant> or <antcall>. We do have a local copy of the Ant
> classes in maven, I believe expressly for the purposes of allowing
> references to be passed, but I don't think we are currently using them.
>
> A workaround would be to create a property that has the value of the
> maven classpath reference and pass it during the ant call. All of the
> other properties set by maven (and previously by your delegating build
> file) are already being passed.
>
> <ant file="${maven.war.prepareBuildFile}"
> target="${maven.war.prepareBuildTarget}">
> <property name="maven.classpath" refid="classpath" />
> </ant>
>
> You could then use it in your own targets as
>
> <some_task_using_a_classpath>
> <classpath path="${maven.classpath}" />
> </some_task_using_a_classpath>
>
> Would that satisfy your needs?
>
> Glenn McAllister
> SOMA Networks, Inc.
>
>
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