Amato Massimiliano (TLAB) wrote on Friday, April 16, 2004 10:16 AM:

>> Jason,
>> 
>> One interesting side-effect of using entities is that if you're
>> importing them from an external source (which, if you're not, what's
>> the point?) then packaging/deploying a pom to the repo will result
>> in an incomplete info set for others d/l'ing that project for a
>> recursive build or recursive resolution...
> 
> I am not sure i really got what you meant. I looked over the
> entities and i'll implement it in my system but right now I
> would like to better understand the side effect you're talking about.

No. If you use the maven-dist-plugin to deploy a distribution, the plugin will also 
distribute the POM. But IMHO it is for a subproject always useless, since you 
reference with the extend tag also "external" resources as you would do with entities.

> As for external source do you also mean internal project
> built by another group of developers? If that's the case the
> entities would be almost useless since will force each dev to
> have all the sources on his computer, instead of importing
> the latest snapshot from the remote repo

You will need the entity definition. It depends on your setup, if entities are 
multiproject local or enterprise wirde.

Regards,
J�rg

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