1. Does that mean that the poms we write would look exactly same as how they would have looked during maven 2.x days ?
2. "3 will complain if you did not specify versions in the plugins" I guess, this applies only to the plugins that ate *not* specified in teh superpom ( core plugins ) ? --sony On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Tom Eugelink <[email protected]>wrote: > If you do nothing fancy in your plugins then you should be able to migrate > to 3 without changes to the plugin. 3.0 is mainly a refactoring of the 2 > code and tries to remain as much backwards compatible as is possible. So no, > yes, no. > 3 will complain if you did not specify versions in the plugins, so that is > something to pick up. > > > > > > On 15-4-2011 04:34, Sony Antony wrote: > >> We have been using mvn 2.1 for a while and we have understood it fairly >> well. >> Recently we decided to move to 3.x,( mainly for teh parallel build feature >> with the -T switch ) >> >> But we find teh documentation difficult to come by. Googling didnt dig up >> any tutorial or guides for 3.0 specific features. >> Specifically, we have the following fundamental questions. Will be very >> grateful if somebody could answer these. >> >> 1. I read about the changes for the pom.xml in 3.x. Does that mean that I >> should change my poms, even if I m not using any features specific to 3.x. >> ( >> Maybe I should change the namespace from >> http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 to >> something newer ? ) >> 2. When I built a simple project, all of teh plugins that got >> automatically >> downloaded from http://repo1.maven.org looked pretty much like the >> plugins >> used by maven 2.x. Does that mean that most of the plugins and >> repositories >> I would be using will be exactly same as maven 2.x ? >> 3. Even teh super pom looks teh same in maven 3.x ( verified using >> help:effective-pom ). Are we supposed to oevrride any of teh versions in >> the >> superpom for the core plugins, so as to get the ones that would work with >> maven 3.x ? ( probably to get the latest thread safe versions ? ) >> >> Thank you for reading. >> >> >> >> --sony >> >> > > -- > > *Tom Eugelink* > Senior software engineer > +31 (0)6 - 47 93 85 92 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *KnowledgePlaza <http://www.knowledgeplaza.nl>* > Sutton 15 > 7327 AB Apeldoorn > Tel: +31 (0)55 - 526 3887 > Fax: +31 (0)55 - 526 3950 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Disclaimer: The information contained in this message is for the intended > addressee only and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. > If you are not the intended addressee, please delete this message and notify > the sender; do not copy or distribute this message or disclose its contents > to anyone. > > > > > > > > >
