On 24-Jun-08, at 4:48 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
Eugene Kuleshov on 22/06/08 05:58, wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
I thought I'd let you know how I'm using m2eclipse, maven and
eclipse, since it might save you some time and alternatively,
someone else might be able to say whether it's worth going
further. I'm under intense pressure to get a project finished so I
haven't had time to upgrade from 0.0.12 to 0.9.x, and (correct me
if I'm wrong) m2eclipse and WTP integration needs to go a little
further before it's worth relying on m2eclipse for webapps -
unless you're beta testing.
Adam, it is certainly your right to stay on nearly 8 month version
of m2eclipse, but I don't think it would be fair to say this about
present WTP integration. Yes it has few shortcomings and we could
have done a better job in documenting those shortcomings. This is
where community could actually help us. So, please by all means do
help us update wiki pages. Editing is allowed for anyone, you just
need to create an account at Codehaus. From the top of my head the
current shortcomings are:
- WTP EJB, RAR and EAR project types are not implemented yet
- WTP can't deploy web app if it has dependencies that have same
artifactIds and different groupId
- Maven war overlays are not supported
- warpath Maven plugin is not supported
Anyways, I would like to encourage anyone to try WTP integration in
m2eclipse 0.9.4. You can start from this mini howto. http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/WTP+mini+howto
No disrespect intended, and I appreciate your concern to encourage
people to use the latest version, but nobody else had answered the OP.
I don't think any is taken, but we're moving toward the 1.0 and that's
what we're planning to support. We don't support 0.12 anymore because
we almost completely rewritten it and the 0.12 was versioned as such
to indicated a work in progress. We plan to make integration that's
bullet proof but that's the goal of the 1.0.
Supporting WAR overlays and the warpath plugin are not trivial things,
and not necessary the best way to go. We don't know yet but we do know
that as we approach 1.0 the integration is getting incredibly solid.
We are investing in QA, having proper release schedules and release
criteria. This is required as we move into Eclipse proper.
Most who have tried the newer versions have been generally much
happier and a lot more works because the plugin has been completely
revamped.
For a long time I would always download and use the latest version
and also do that for other developers in my office but it got to the
point with 0.0.12 where m2eclipse was simply good enough to do
everything I needed, I had worked out how to configure WTP to work
with it, and the pressure of work peaked, so that's where I stopped.
It wasn't just me whose time I was worried about.
I dream of time when the pressure eases off and I can play a little
again.
Hopefully it's not too far off.
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Thanks,
Jason
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and sit softly on your shoulder ...
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