On 12/5/05, li pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is, I have to do it manually?
most probably yes. like i said it is going to be a paradigm shift so you will need to invest some effort. it is the same like migrating from a make system to an Ant system. ciao! > BTW, what does "ciao!" in your post mean ;) I can't found it in my > dictionary. > > > 2005/12/5, Anuerin Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 12/5/05, li pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, I am tring to convert my eclipse projects into maven > > projects. These > > > projects depend on many opensource jars, and use heavily ant scripts. > > > Is it possiable? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > short answer, yes. is it going to be easy? the answer is maybe. > > > > our project was heavily dependent on Ant scripting. the move to Maven > > was pretty much a paradigm shift for us but something that we were > > able to accomplish. there are still open issues but we worked around > > them or filed JIRA issues that are currently being resolved. you can > > call Ant scripts in Maven but you should evaluate which parts can be > > delegated to plugins or what could be done using your own plugins. if > > there are critical sections that you cant transform to Maven then use > > the antrun plugin. > > > > as for the open source libraries, you can probably get them in the > > official repositories or add them manually to yours. see the links > > below for more information: > > > > > > http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html > > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-installing-3rd-party-jars.html > > http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ide-eclipse.html > > http://maven.apache.org/guides/index.html > > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Home > > > > ciao! > > > > -- > > > > "Programming, an artform that fights back" > > > > Anuerin G. Diaz > > Registered Linux User #246176 > > Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php > > http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else > > better to do > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]