Thanks I found that I just needed to create a seperate pom with a dependency on the original project and it all worked as I expected
2009/4/25 Trygve Laugstøl <tryg...@codehaus.org> > richard schmidt wrote: > >> I was think about about how well maven manages project dependencies and I >> suddenly though, could I use it to distribute an application to client PCs? >> >> Every client PC would have to have maven installed and configured to use >> the company repository. >> >> On a shared PC I would install a the application's POM and a batch file >> >> Uses would simply run the batch file, which would run a maven command that >> would download the required jars from the company repository and start up >> the application. >> >> Of course I would need a plugin to start up the application and I thought >> exec-maven-plugin would do the trick. Turns out you need to have the entire >> project checked out into the directory, the pom itself is not enough. >> >> I know that I should be using Webstart, but even with the >> webstart-maven-plugin, sometimes webstart is a pain. This is for a company >> wide application so we don't need to worry about firewalls, security, etc. >> >> Is the idea totally crazy? >> > > Not at all. The appassembler plugin was written based on that idea, it is > even still reflected in the code. It was intended that appassembler creted > applications would be able to do a form of self-update, at least with new > SNAPSHOT dependencies. However that part of the plugin/code was never > implemented so it "only" support creating complete bundles of JARs, but that > combined with the deb, rpm, solaris or unix plugins has made it sufficiently > easy to distribute applications for me. > > -- > Trygve > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
