Hey Jason,

Comments inline...  By the way, Great Work! The Jakarta effort has
taught me sooo much!

--- Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 10:20, Jason Kary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If I understand the concept of Maven correctly, then I believe it
> is a 
> > framework for setting a common development environment for a new 
> > project.  Is this correct?
> 
> This is part of it. A common development environment, development
> strategies, tools for publishing your site, metrics and massive
> building
> including the idea of continuous integration.
>  

Cool.  So I am looking at Maven from the perspective of building a tool
 to quickly develop web applications. 


> > Here are some thoughts I  had will trying to use Maven for a
> generic 
> > project creator for building Web Appliations:
> > 
> > 1) Have the jar datasource for the "get" command defined in
> project.xml.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here. The jar files pulled down via http are
> defined in the project.xml file in the <dependencies> section.
> 

The scripts are hard coded to point to jakarta.apache.org.  I thought
it would be nice to be able to override this value and point one's own
repository.

> > 2) Have the <jarResources> included in the classpath for compiles.
> 
> Ok, do you have a use case for this? Suggestions with examples would
> help elucidate your point.
> 

I tried an ant maven:metrics and it does a compile based on the
dependencies, however in the web applications we develop I also want to
 include all the jar files defined in WEB-INF/lib on the classpath for
the compile.  I put my reference to the lib jars in the jarResources
tag?



> > 3) Have the ability to define you desired directory structure in
> the 
> > project.xml
> 
> -1
> 
> The structure will be the same for all projects so that someone who
> is
> familiar with one 'mavenized' project will be familiar with all
> 'mavenized' projects. The goal is to try and unify all aspects of
> development and this includes the project structure.
> 
> We will eventually have tools to help people migrate their projects.
> I
> really don't see having a set structure as being that terrible.
> 
> > Will the default.properties used by most of the jakarta projects go
> away 
> > with this system?  It seems most of the stuff in default.properties
> can 
> > be derieved from project.xml.
> 

Hmm.. I see you point here, and I agree with the strategy however for
my purposes the defined directory structure is not compatible if you
want to develop inside of a tomcat webapps directory. 

Take Care 
Jason Kary






> I'm not counting on Maven being very popular with other Jakarta
> projects. I just wanted to try this with Turbine first.
> 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Jason Kary
> > 
> > 
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