I have generally found that Maven is able to handle most if not all of my packaging requirements.
The only way to find out if it will work for you is to do some reading (free pdf ebooks from devzuz and sonatype) and then try it out yourself. In general, if you're "just" replacing Ant scripts with Maven, I'd expect that it should be a success. Though I'm certain there will be some pains along the way. So you need to weigh the costs vs the benefits etc and make a decision once you've gotten to the point where you are comfortable with Maven. You may also find it helpful to convert one or two of your modules to Maven to see how that feels and how the process works, and then decide to continue or stop there. If you decide to stick with Ant, the Maven Ant Tasks may be helpful: http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks.html Wayne On 9/18/07, GAMBELLI Raffaele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > we are trying to understand if we can take advantage of maven to totally > replace our mega ANT script which produces the release of our multi language > and multi module project. > > Our project is a mix of Java and C++ code and it is a very complex system > composed by sub systems running on different machines. > Our final release(which is done for example each six months), is a directory > containing other directory of jar, dll, sql script, installer of other > external applications and other kind of resources. Some of those directory > will be put to a machine, some other to another machine etc... > > At this time, all the necessary steps to create that release are accomplished > through an ANT script very very big, it does many many different things in > one shot, that is, I execute the setup.xml, and after some time I obtain my > maxy installable folder which I pass to the sysadmin who take care to copy > each folder in the right place. > > Finally, the release of my project is not only deploy a jar containing "one > hundred sub-modules jars", but it is a big assembly of many projects (some > Java and some C++ and in early future .NET). > > I took a look at the assembly plugin > (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/) but I need a tool > not bound to a project (bound to a single pom.xml) like assembly plugin. > > In your experience, is it possibile replace that ANT script with maven? > > In your projects, how do you perform the creation of the installable items? > > Thanks, I hope to have benn quite understandable! > > Regards, > Raffaele > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
