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_____ From: Chris Bredesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:42 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Transitive "sibling" builds Hello All, Just subscribed, and I wanted to revisit the discussion that took place regarding the above topic in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg32502.html There seems to be a lot of resistance from the community (lack of understanding, maybe) to implementing this sort of transitive build mechanism. I, too, do exactly what the original poster does, and the lack of support for this is the only real reason I haven't adopted Maven2 as my build tool of choice. I get closer each time, but since there's no way to build an entire WAR file in one shot, I have to give it up. I realize it CAN be done, but it seems that the WAR file has to be the parent of all its components. I wanted to add my own experience into this discussion, and possibly even spur enough information to contribute myself. I have my enterprise laid out as such, made of webapps (w) and components (c): w1 w2 w3 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 Each of the webapps may use any of the components as dependencies, along with a slew of off-the-shelf API's. The problem for me is that these components can have only one parent directory. I have no way to separately build w1 and w2. Unless I'm missing, something, we'd need sibling communication in order to make this work. Currently each Ant buildfile knows which components are needed, but has no idea if they need to be built or not, thus causing me to build everything each time I compile. To avoid this, I also maintain Eclipse projects (one per app, not one big one) which have project-level dependencies on each other. This makes the local development compilation very fast, but I have to maintain both the Eclipse metadata AND the Ant buildfiles. Maven addresses all of this (I really love the Maven2 plugin for Eclipse), but since there's no support for sibling transitive builds, there is no way to just grab all the source and compile w1 or w2 in one shot. Eventually I'd like to use Continuum as well. If I'm missing something here, I'd sure like to know about it. If I can contribute and make this happen, I'd love to, when time permits. I fear I'd have a lot of catching up to do, though. Perhaps I can work on some documentation at the very least. Thoughts? ----------------------------------------- Attention: Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. The information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies.
