Hi everyone. I'm into a project that started recently. The "powers that be" wanted the dev team to re-use another project which supposedly is similar to ours. The problem is that this project is also based on a "base" project of the company. I forgot to mention I'm talking about a J2EE 1.3 project, using EJBs 2.0, XDoclet, Hibernate and Struts 1.2 I tried to fix the build file only to discover that the "base" project has cyclical dependencies. Classes that are in the util package talk to DAOs, DAO's referring to common classes, web classes talking to DAO's. In short I can't compile one without the other. It's a nightmare. My manager is reluctant about doing some heavy refactoring to correct all this. Since we have a build file that works (even though it compiles classes and then deletes them to resolve the dependencies) he says, no let's try it by improving upon this; and we'll see. What do you suggest? Is there a way to create a proper build file for this project, having seperation of concerns (e.g. commom-compile, ejb-compile, web-compile etc)
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