Hi Celso,
you can build ANY type of application (and even for any type of language).
If you are already familiar with Ant, you know that you simply declare
tasks (which can be any type: compile, jar, copy, anything) and order Ant
to execute them. Look at Ant user manual to have an idea the type of tasks
you can execute : http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html.
Maven is founded in more or less the same principles. In ealier versions
of Maven, if you wanted flexibility you had to use ant to invoke maven,
but with the new versions of maven (at least with rc1) you have a file
called maven.xml. This file is basically an Ant script.
What you need to do is:
a) determine the list of tasks you need to accomplish in order to
build your desktop application:
Prepare your file system, Compile, Make your jars,
Generate documentation, and so forth
Note: Maven already does everything for you without
creating any maven.xml, however, if you needed further flexibility then,
you
have to write maven.xml. For example, if you need to
produce two types of jars (internal and external) and two types of java
docs (internal and external); copy files to remote repositories, and that
type of stuffs; you have to write maven.xml to guide maven.
b) write -in the maven.xml file - as many targets as tasks you
have determined above
sample:
<target name="prepareFileSystem">
<mkdir dir="${logs}" />
<mkdir dir="${build}" />
<!-- more lines ... --->
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="prepareFileSystem">
<!-- for java applications -->
<javac ..... />
<!-- or for c++ applications -->
<exec dir="${src}"
executable="${MicrosoftCompiler}" output="${logs}/compile.log">
<arg line="{yourfiles}"/>
</exec>
</target>
Read this article, and see if it is of any help for you:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-maven/?ca=dnt-414
I hope this helps
Regards
MArcial Rosales
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Hello Folks,
I am trying to use maven in a desktop project and I am having some
difficults to write the project.xml
and maven.xml. I've been looking for examples but I found just examples to
web applications. Does
anybody has an example (project.xml and maven.xml) or a tutorial wich
teaches to use maven
with desktop applications?
Thanks,
Celso Jr
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