If I did not miss-understand the maven dependencies' mechanism in
project.xml :
With
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<id>DEPEND</id>
<version>1.0</version>
<url>http://address/plugin/</url>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Maven will first try to download "http://address/plugin/DEPEND/jars/DEPEND
-1.0.jar" under $MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL/repository/DEPEND/jars/DEPEND-1.0.jar
It should be understand as an unspecified/default <type>repository</type>
attribute.
And with
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<id>PLUGIN</id>
<version>1.0</version>
<url>http://address/plugin/</url>
<type>plugin</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Maven will first try to download "http://address/plugin/PLUGIN/jars/PLUGIN
-1.0.jar" under $MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL/repository/PLUGIN/jars/PLUGIN-1.0.jar and
expand the jar file under $MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL/plugins/PLUGIN-1.0
In my project, Maven is used as a build framework:
... during the development step (step #1) :
- automate the build process of interdependent tools
- build the end-user framework (viewed as a maven-project template + tools)
- make an intermediate distribution with this end-user framework + external
data
... to modelize, configure and build a final product based on the previous
end-user framework
- ordering the build process steps (step #2)
- * download/ask for intermediate dependencies (bin, data, bin + data) as
needed. Binaries should be not only jars.
- make a distribution with a full-functionnal system (understand:
pre-configured and coherent set of applications ready to be installed on
pre-defined - i.e modelized - hosts).
In this purpose, the maven dependencies' mechanism should be an elegant way
to define a generic download mechanism on demand and to provide a very
light weight intermediate distribution (in step #1) for my "multi-purpose
project".
So my question is...
1. To be a quite more generic (not only java/binary oriented), is there a
way to define other formats available for automatic download with the
<type> attribute. I mean Is there a way to define dependency as a
DEPEND-1.0.tar or, mostly appreciated, as a PLUGIN-1.0.[tar|bz2|tgz|...].
2. Should the dependencies be specific of a particular goal in maven.xml.
With this pre-requisites, it should become coarse to distribute specific
data (question 1.) on demand (question 2.)
All suggestions are welcome...
Olivier Champagne @ EADS DCS S.A
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