trygvis has a spiffy idea a bit ago about a new assembly type plugin that would produce a set up shell scripts (or batch files, wherever the case may be) that could be used for launching command line based applications..
the idea scales nicely into a handy mechanism for launching servers or things of that nature. I think the general feeling behind the concern was pretty well summed up with the alternative name of maven-pandorasbox-plugin since it really is an adhoc extension on the end of the build system. Sure it works but it is pretty low-tech. I am looking into what it will take to put together a more complete solution to the problem a la trygvis's idea....it already exists in some from inside of plexus so it shouldn't be too terrible to put together.. I am thinking of two modes for the plugin atm, one that scans the source of the subproject for main methods and generates stubs for calling all of those objects, and another one that lets you specify in the <configuration> of the plugin that lets you map a script name to generate for a given class's main method. additional ideas along this vien are more then welcome atm :) not sure when I'll have this together though...so would say go ahead and tweak the execute plugin if you like it to more things...submit patchs on it and I'll review/commit them if you don't already have commit access to mojo. jesse On 9/19/05, Ashley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wondering why the controversy. Is it about where to best place > the task, or even whether it belongs in maven at all? > > On 19 Sep 2005, at 18:38, Jesse McConnell wrote: > > > hi, > > > > I was the one that cobbled that maven-execute-plugin together in > > the sandbox > > that you are referring too.. > > > > there is some discussion on irc around it... > > > > my general feeling on it, and the reason I created it in the first > > place was > > that it was a great (and simple) way to have m2 manage the classpath > > automatically for me. the idea behind the maven-execute-plugin > > might not be > > the best way about going it really. However, there are a number of > > ways to > > skin this cat.. > > > > I am not sure about going too far down this path since some of the > > m2 devs > > are _really_ not hot on this idea atm :) The best thing might be to > > get a > > bit of further comment on ths subject from kenney and trygvis..and > > maybe > > brett if he sees this.. If they have a solution they are happy with > > then > > I'll certainly put it together if it doesn't already exist in some > > form...I > > use this plugin in its current state all the time for running > > little one off > > programs I don't want to mess about with classpaths for. > > > > btw, execute:jar shouldn't be too bad...though it might be that if > > this > > plugin lives on then it ought to be renamed...it doesn't exec perl > > afterall. > > > > Jesse > > > > On 9/19/05, Kristian Nordal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Sep 19, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Kenney Westerhof wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Kristian Nordal wrote: > >>> > >>> You could file a JIRA issue for that plugin to request a > >>> 'execute:jar' goal that executes the jar if it is an auto-executable > >>> jar (i.e. it's manifest has a Main-Class entry). > >>> > >> > >> Done. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-34 > >> > >> > >>> Note that maven2 is a project management/build tool, not a generic > >>> execution environment, so plugins like these don't belong there > >>> (for now, > >>> at least :)) > >>> > >> > >> Noted =) > >> > >> -- > >> Kristian > >> > >> > >>> > >>> But I agree it would be easy if jar:execute worked too. ;) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Ashley Williams wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Is there currently a java plugin for running regular main() apps? > >>>>> I've just checked the repository and I couldn't find one. > >>>>> Currently > >>>>> I define the following plugin in my pom: > >>>>> > >>>>> <plugin> > >>>>> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > >>>>> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> > >>>>> <configuration> > >>>>> <archive> > >>>>> <manifest> > >>>>> <mainClass>Server</mainClass> > >>>>> </manifest> > >>>>> </archive> > >>>>> </configuration> > >>>>> </plugin> > >>>>> </plugins> > >>>>> > >>>>> and would like to do something like this to run the app: > >>>>> m2 java:java > >>>>> > >>>>> but at the moment I have to do this: > >>>>> java -jar file://<myrepository>/<myartifact>/myapp.jar > >>>>> > >>>>> In fact I'd ideally like to run the app immediately after the > >>>>> install: > >>>>> m2 install java:java > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I've been thinking about the same thing. It would be nice to be > >>>> able > >>>> to just run the jar file with the correct dependencies in the > >>>> classpath directly. > >>>> > >>>> There's a plugin at org.codehaus.mojo called maven-execute- > >>>> plugin (in > >>>> the sandbox), which does something like this (I don't know if it > >>>> currently works). From the docs: "A useful little plugin for > >>>> leveraging maven to build the required classpath to > >>>> execute the main method on an object." With an example for > >>>> running it > >>>> directly (can also be configured in the POM): "m2 > >>>> execute:resources - > >>>> Dexecute.class="com.foo.X" -Dexecute.args="-h bar". > >>>> > >>>> For this you would need an additional plugin (execute), why not > >>>> just > >>>> put this functionality into the jar plugin? So no more > >>>> configuration > >>>> is needed. It might be the wrong place for it, I don't know, but it > >>>> would be nice to just write "m2 jar:run" =) > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Kristian > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> AW > >>>>> > >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>>> -- > >>>>> - > >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> -- > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Kenney Westerhof > >>> http://www.neonics.com > >>> GPG public key: http://www.gods.nl/~forge/kenneyw.key > >>> > >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> - > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > jesse mcconnell > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- jesse mcconnell
