On 12/15/05, Milos Kleint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maybe there's just need for tools to help creating the pom content?
Tools will solve the problem is never a good solution IMO. Many folks prefer to use simple text editors and they're unlikely to fire up Eclipse just to edit their pom.xml. Matt > > Milos > > Chris Berry wrote: > > Hi Matt! > > A big +1 from me. I've been discussing this w/ John, Jason, et al. A push > > towards simplifying/shortening the XML would be a big help. > > Cheers, > > -- Chris > > > > On 12/15/05, John Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Actually, an even better thing to do would be to participate in the > >> design for 2.1. The page for some of this discussion is at: > >> > >> http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=32108 > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> John > >> > >> Allan Ramirez wrote: > >> > >>> Please file a jira issue for this http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG > >>> > >>> -allan > >>> > >>> Matt Raible wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> After seeing what the Spring Developers have done to simplify Spring > >>>> context files, I can't help but think the same thing is possible for > >>>> Maven 2's pom.xml. Is it possible to add namespaces and make > >>>> something like the following possible? > >>>> > >>>> Before: > >>>> > >>>> <dependency> > >>>> <groupId>springframework</groupId> > >>>> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> > >>>> <version>1.2.6</version> > >>>> </dependency> > >>>> > >>>> After: > >>>> > >>>> <dep:artifact name="org/springframework/spring" version="1.2.6"/> > >>>> > >>>> Or just allow attributes to make things a bit cleaner? > >>>> > >>>> <dependency groupId="org.springframework" artifactId="spring" > >>>> version="1.2.6"/> > >>>> > >>>> Allowing 1 line instead of 5-6 lines per dependency would allow me to > >>>> cut my dependencies listing from 140 lines of XML to 37 lines. When > >>>> the Spring guys allows a couple of elements as attributes (<ref> and > >>>> <value>) - it made writing Spring context files *much* easier. > >>>> > >>>> Here's an example of my simplified version: > >>>> > >>>> <dependencies> > >>>> <dependency groupId="cargo" artifactId="cargo" version="0.6" > >>>> scope="test"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang" > >>>> version="2.0"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging" > >>>> version="1.0.4"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="displaytag" artifactId="displaytag" > >>>> version="1.0" scope="runtime"> > >>>> <exclusions> > >>>> <exclusion artifactId="xalan" groupId="xalan"/> > >>>> </exclusions> > >>>> </dependency> > >>>> <dependency groupId="uk.ltd.getahead" artifactId="dwr" > >>>> version="1.0" scope="runtime"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="org.hibernate" artifactId="hibernate" > >>>> version="3.0.5"> > >>>> <exclusions> > >>>> <exclusion artifactId="jta" groupId="javax.transaction"/> > >>>> </exclusions> > >>>> </dependency> > >>>> <dependency groupId="geronimo-spec" artifactId="geronimo-spec-jta" > >>>> version="1.0.1B-rc4"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="jmock" artifactId="jmock" version="1.0.1" > >>>> scope="test"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="3.8.1" > >>>> scope="test"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="jwebunit" artifactId="jwebunit" version="1.2" > >>>> scope="test"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="httpunit" artifactId="httpunit" version="1.6" > >>>> scope="test"> > >>>> <exclusions> > >>>> <exclusion artifactId="js" groupId="rhino"/> > >>>> </exclusions> > >>>> </dependency> > >>>> <dependency groupId="log4j" artifactId="log4j" version="1.2.11"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="postgresql" artifactId="postgresql" > >>>> version="8.1-404.jdbc3"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="servlet-api" > >>>> version="2.4" scope="provided"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="jstl" > >>>> version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="taglibs" artifactId="standard" > >>>> version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="opensymphony" artifactId="sitemesh" > >>>> version="2.2.1" scope="runtime"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="springmodules" > >>>> artifactId="springmodules-validator" version="0.1" scope="runtime"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring" > >>>> version="1.2.6"/> > >>>> <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring-mock" > >>>> version="1.2.6" scope="test"> > >>>> <exclusions> > >>>> <exclusion artifactId="spring-jdbc" groupId="springframework"/> > >>>> <exclusion artifactId="spring-web" groupId="springframework"/> > >>>> </exclusions> > >>>> </dependency> > >>>> </dependencies> > >>>> > >>>> Of course, Ivy's syntax is even simpler, so maybe that'll provide some > >>>> motivation. ;-) > >>>> > >>>> <dependencies> > >>>> <dependency org="apache" name="commons-lang" rev="2.0" /> > >>>> <dependency org="apache" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" /> > >>>> </dependencies> > >>>> > >>>> Matt > >>>> > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>> 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] > >>> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
