Start by scanning a few of the free books and articles about Maven.
This will give you a good overview of the Maven way of looking at things.
I use Eclipse/STS from SpringSource http://www.springsource.org/sts.
It is a very good Maven IDE and comes ready to go with a single download.
I am sure that you will find a lot of Netbeans users here who are also
happy.
Maven is driven by convention and is very set in its ways.
Forget anything that you know about Ant and be prepared to completely
rethink your build processes.
If you try to make Maven into an advanced Ant build, you will have a big
fight on your hands until you change your mind.
Maven will not change its mind about building software no matter how
hard you try to bend it to your will.
Start out with a simple Maven project model and get it working before
you try to optimize your process.
A lot of people get into trouble by trying to implement advanced
automation before they get their project to build as a simple Maven project.
In the end, you will have a much more repeatable build process that can
be shared with your team without having to explain the steps.
It is pretty easy and safe to pick up someone's maven project and
rebuild it without having to read their POM files.
Ron
On 13/06/2013 11:50 PM, Russell Gold wrote:
Hi Raja,
Having done this several times, with projects of varying complexity, I am sorry
to say that AFAIK there is no automated way to do it. The problem is that ant
is a very free form scripting language that allows you to describe builds - but
ant writers cannot be guaranteed to do everything the same way.
Ant does not require any particular conventions for organizing source trees,
invocation of external programs to process code, or even require a single
source tree to map to a single artifact. Bottom line is, you're going to have
to do the change manually. Now if your project is simple, turning it into a
maven build is trivial. But I've spent a couple of works converting one
project, and am in the middle of a massive one with a couple of hundred ant
scripts and a few dozen special processing steps, that I expect to take several
months to convert.
Do you have any specific questions about converting your build? How complex is
it?
- Russ
On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:30 PM, RajaPrlabu <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, all:Sorry for my entry-level question. Is it possible for me to convert
from an Ant project to A Maven project from within NetBeans IDE or Eclipse
IDE.which is the best IDE.Or, is there any method to convert from an Ant
project to a Maven project using some command line method? Or, any standard
method to do so?1.How to convert Spring MVC Project using Ant convert into
Maven nexus.could u please provide me Following Steps.ThanksRaja k
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