Hello,
From reading the information on the maven web and trying the plugins
for NetBeans and Eclipse I was quickly sold on Maven, and decided to
give it a try by converting an old very simple project with 4 parts into
maven projects. The four parts of my project are: A library, 1 code
generator, 1 documentation generator, and a support library used by both
generators. I made them each into separate maven atrifacts with the
relevant dependencies to each other. Getting them to compile was very
easy, but now came my problems:
Problem 1:
When I used Ant to build my project I made the 2 generators executable
with java -jar by supplying a Main-Class and Class-path entries in the
MANIFEST.MF file of the jar files. There seem to be no way to do this
with maven!
The maven plugin for netbeans apparently provides its own maven plugin
for doing this. Is it really required to do your own packaging plugin to
handle this ? I dont want my project to have any dependency on any
specific IDE so I dont want to use that plugin.
Problem 2:
In the end I also want to package these 4 parts into a release zip (also
including documentation) that can be installed and used by simply
unzipping somewhere. I can't even find a mention somewhere that such a
thing is even possble with maven.
Problem 3:
I want to be able to checkout clean sources from CVS and then simply
build the whole project with one build command. With maven I seem to be
required to manually initiate the build for each part and to do it in
the correct order so that dependencies are resolved correctly. I want a
dependency on the source also, not only the compiled binaries. I want to
be able to have a top project with dependencies on the other 4 and when
I build that all projects are build in the order required to support
compile dependencies.
I get the impression that Ant is still needed to manage the project as a
whole.
I've read what documentation I can find on the Maven home page, but it
is unfortunately not very helpful.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Best Regards,
Tommy Svensson
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