Great thank you so much Siegfried. SomeDude is not my real name of course :)
I just need to be anonymous for when I ask "maybe-not-so-smart-questions".

I am almost done with chapter 1 from "Maven a Developer's Notebook" and then
I will start trying out your advice.

Thank you again :)



Siegfried Goeschl wrote:
> 
> Hi SomeDude,
> 
> Not sure if SomeDude is really your name ... I did such a thing for 
> Maven 1 ...
> 
> +) you can explicitely define which reports should be generated - some 
> of them use source code whereas some other use class files (JDepend)
> 
> +) best you start with a minimal report section
> 
> +) you can trigger the site generation using "mvn site" somewhere within 
> the ant build
> 
> +) depending on the amount of tinkering you can also generate a Surefire 
> report passed on your JUnit test
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Siegfried Goeschl
> 
> 
> PS: Good luck out there as fresh graduate ... :-)
> 
> SomeDude wrote:
>> I am very new to Maven and from the introductory reading that I have done
>> I
>> am starting to understand that if I were to use it in our projects I
>> would
>> have to replace our current build process. Here are my problems:
>> 
>> 1) Boss wants me to see if Maven can be useful for us in the
>> documentation
>> process. He really likes the website feature.
>> 2) Boss likes the way we build our projects since we have been using
>> these
>> ginormous ant scripts for years now. He will not change the build
>> process.
>> 3) Boss would not even consider messing with our current directory
>> structures
>> 
>> My Question is:
>> 
>> Is there any way I could use Maven features like the website generation
>> and
>> report creation without having to interfere with the current project
>> structure and build process?
>> 
>> Sorry if my question is noobish, FreshGraduate!
>> 
>> Thanx guys.
>> 
>>   
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