Celso, There is an maven eclipse plugin - see http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/eclipse/
As far as I know, there isn't an automated way of converting maven scripts to ant and vice versa. ant to maven is a manual process, but pretty easy as you can use all the ant tasks - but with more power/flexibility using jelly. I don't know why you would want to convert maven to ant!!! If you read my original mail, you'll understand some issues I have with developing in J2EE applications in WSAD and integrating maven. Haven't had much feedback yet. Should I assume most maven users use other IDEs! I would have thought at least Eclipse would have been pretty popular. Al. Digital Union UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digitalunion.com t: +44 (0) 1483 889482 m:+44 (0) 7713 631367 f: +44 (0) 1483 889450 The information in this email and in any attachment(s) is confidential. If you are not the named addressee(s) or if you receive this email in error then any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. While attachments are virus checked, Digital Union UK Limited does not accept any liability in respect of any virus which is not detected. "Celso Junior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26/05/2004 12:07 Please respond to "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject RES: Best practice for webapp development in WSAD/Eclipse Hi all, Do you know any eclipse/wsad plugin to use maven inside eclipse/wsad? Is there any tool that convert build files from maven to ant and vice versa? Thanks, Celso Junior -----Mensagem original----- De: G�schl,Siegfried [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: ter�a-feira, 25 de maio de 2004 14:18 Para: Maven Users List Assunto: RE: Best practice for webapp development in WSAD/Eclipse Hi Al, Basically you are right - they only twist I can add using an ANT wrapper to invoke Maven to setup the exploded web archive. And the ANT Wrapper can be easily executed by the IDE Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl -----Original Message----- From: Al Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 25. Mai 2004 13:50 To: Maven Users List Subject: Best practice for webapp development in WSAD/Eclipse All, I was after some feedback on how people structured their WEB (war) applications when using WSAD/Eclipse and maven for development. My directory is structured as follows: /WebProject /src /java /test /java /WebContent /WEB-INF /classes /lib /target (maven generated) As with jar projects, I defined all dependencies in the pom and these are reflected in the .classpath file A simple example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <classpath> <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/java"/> <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java"/> <classpathentry kind="var" path="SERVERJDK_50_PLUGINDIR/jre/lib/rt.jar" sourcepath="SERVERJDK_50_PLUGINDIR/src.jar"/> <classpathentry kind="var" path="MAVEN_REPO/j2ee/jars/j2ee-1.3.jar"/> <classpathentry kind="var" path="MAVEN_REPO/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar"/> <classpathentry kind="var" path="MAVEN_REPO/log4j/jars/log4j-1.2.8.jar"/> <classpathentry kind="output" path="WebContent/WEB-INF/classes"/> </classpath> This compiles fine. The classes are written to my WebContent/WEB-INF/classes directory. BUT - If I run this application using a WebSphere Test Environment (WTE) server, it will fail because it can't find the log4j classes. The WTE uses the WebContent directory as an exploded war. WTE expects utility jars to be available to the WAS classloader, usually from the WEB-INF/lib directory. If I put the jars in the lib directory, I'm effectively maintaining the dependencies twice (in the pom and in WEB-INF/lib). Of course, when building using maven, the exploded war is created in /target, including dependency jars added to /WEB-INF/lib. That all works fine, especially on a continuous integration server. If I could get WSAD to use the /target/webapp directory in the WTE, that would solve the problem, but I can't. Therefore, using maven in a development environment seems to require deploy the generated ear for each test iteration. This loses much of the power of the WTE. So what do other people do? I've extended war:war to add dependencies defined in the pom to the WebContent/WEB-INF/lib directory. But this requires maven war:war to be run before using WTE for the first time. That doesn't feel right. The whole thing doesn't seem to fit well for war projects (great for jars). I'm still experimenting but I thought I'd ask for help!!! I hope this makes sense :-) Al. Digital Union UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digitalunion.com t: +44 (0) 1483 889482 m:+44 (0) 7713 631367 f: +44 (0) 1483 889450 The information in this email and in any attachment(s) is confidential. If you are not the named addressee(s) or if you receive this email in error then any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. 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