Rob Evans wrote:
[snip]
In order to simplify things, James Ervin and I started another project -
very closely related to m2eclipse - m2eclipse APIs. The purpose - is to ease
programmer's access to the Maven universe. For now we came from our
immediate needs - necessity to find an Artifact, find all Artifact
dependencies as a resolved scoped classpath or mavenize an Eclipse project.
[snip]
Fantastic!
Thanks Rob!
It would be awesome to hear comments - what kind of functionality is
interesting for users.
This may be a little far afield but for the 9.3 release of m2eclipse,
it would be nice (well, a requirement for us) to be able to extend or
otherwise hook into m2eclipse for the purpose of filtering the
available archetypes [1] used for new project creation. I'm imagining
public extension points to the m2eclipse plugin that would allow one
to extend certain behaviors -- think callbacks.
The m2e API project is a little more modest for now. It's geared towards
the pull model - something we synchronously ask Maven to do. What you
want is m2eclipse publishing it's events for external consumers and and
- potentially - registering filters for those events.
As I see it, and m2eclipse authors will correct me, if I am wrong -
m2eclipse has not reached that stage in life yet. Event model should be
introduced after the usage workflows stabilize and maintaining the event
framework is not disruptive for the project.
Although, I've been thinking that a more appropriate design might be
to have the archetype filtering handled by the archetype plugin
itself, perhaps via a kind of policy.
If your users use the archetype plugin - then yes - that belongs to the
plugin configuration. As a matter of fact - I think archetypeNG has some
kind of filtering capability. But I might be wrong :(
In m2eclipse - it's a different mechanism that is employed - project
creation GUI and repository index behind it.
Oleg
In any event, looks very promising. Oh, and is it just me or are
maven, eclipse and the osgi frameworks the vanguard in large scale
opensource java reuse? ;-)
[1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-527
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