I am looking into Maven 2 to try to figure out how to reconfigure our current build environment when we upgrade from v1.0.2. Our software product consists of a number of web applications, portlets, EJBs, and other jar files. Out current build tree is set up as follows:
-- The top directory contains a project.xml file which contains product-wide information such as CVS location and a maven.xml file with a couple goals described below -- A number of mid-level directories are in the top directory, one for each type of artifact (jar, ejb, web application, ...). Each of these directories has a project.xml file which inherits from the top level and a maven.xml file which defines standardized goals which detail the steps to work with the artifact (for example, the web application's "install" goal attains goal "war:install" while the jar's "install" goal attains goal "jar:install") and any goals which are unique to the artifact type (for example, the web application has "load" and "unload" goals which load and unload the application from the server). -- One or more individual project directories are in each mid-level directory. Each of these projects is an independent project which inherits from the mid-level project. The two goals mentioned above in the top level are designed to build a complete documentation site and build a set of deployment artifacts. I am mostly concerned right now with the documentation. In the current setup, the documentation for the top level project contains navigation entries for each mid-level project; each mid-level project's documentation contains navigation entries for the individual projects which create artifacts. The top-level documentation contains product-wide development information such as how to install tools such as Maven. Each of the mid-level project's documentation contains information such as the goals specific to the type of artifact. My questions: 1) Since the top-level and mid-level projects do not create any artifacts, their POMs are not installed into the local repository. How do I define the inheritance for the individual projects so that they inherit the proper information from the two upper levels? 2) How do I get the generated site to have the nested navigation (top-level has links to mid-level which has links to individual projects)? Alternatively, can I have the top level have links directly to the mid-level documentation as well as the individual projects? 3) For the purposes of inheritance and building documentation, should the build tree be flattened out to make the individual projects subdirectories of the top level or is it better to keep things the way they are at present? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
