On Dec 15, 2008, at 3:10 AM, David Jencks wrote:
On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:17 PM, bongosdude wrote:
I would lile to use maven to mange our project build/deploy during
development, QA and production release. Maven is good at managing
dependencies. While GEP can get us up to speed in development, it
is tricky
to manage dependency using eclipse among team members. I have tried
to read
geronimo sample to see how maven is used to build and deploy geronimo
sample. However, I could not find out how maven is used with
gernonimo.
Can someone help to explain or give me suggestions on how I can
learn more
on this subject?
0. For team-wide access set up a team accessible maven repository.
I've demoed this using sonatype nexus which works great but you can
also set up httpd or presumably a lot of other things.
1. set up a maven project for each of your apps to use the geronimo
car-maven-plugin to "pre-deploy" your application into a geronimo
plugin. Deploy it into the team-wide maven repository (configure the
deploymenManagement of your pom to point to the team repo)
2. set up a maven project to assemble a custom server, again using
the car-maven-plugin. Include the framework plugin group and your
apps and any optional stuff from geronimo you might want such as
parts of the admin console. Everything else needed will be pulled
in too.
3. After deploying the assembled server it too will be available
from the shared repo.
There are a couple geronimo archetypes to help setting up these
maven projects but they are rather primitive and dont use the new
archetype plugin features.... they still might help.
geronimo-plugin-archetype sets up a plugin project
geronimo-assembly-archetype sets up a custom server assembly project.
Perhaps the simplest example of all this in action is in geronimo
trunk in the plugins/monitoring console: along with the base code,
and the monitoring console portal application, we build plugins for
the app and a server containing the monitoring console and run a
simple integration test.
Just going to point out that this is not the *only* technique of using
maven with Geronimo. You can also build your application, and deploy
it (using maven or using Geronimo administrative commands). Building a
customized server is certainly a nice feature. However, it's not the
only option...
This would be a nice documentation project for someone...
--kevan
