Hi,
Regarding the XML thing (OT wrt documentation - sorry).
XML basically sucks as a human readable format, it's a more verbose
form of tree/list syntax (like s-expr).
One problem I have with mvn that I don't have with Ant is that there
are no 'shorthand' options in mvn ie:
to declare a single dependency:
<dependencies>
<dependency></dependency>
</dependencies>
but as I only have 1 I should be able to write
<dependency></dependency>
This lack of a 'shorthand' form (for want of a better term), means
that a pom file grows to be much larger than necessary (even when I
can use a parent pom and inherit from that).
Another example is the filtering - this is from a project I'm working on
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/hibernate.cfg.xml</include>
<include>**/*.properties</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>false</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/test/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/hibernate.cfg.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/test/resources</directory>
<filtering>false</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/context.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
<filtering>false</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
Because we have binary resources (image files) I have to explicitly
exclude those from the filtering when I just want to filter 4 files -
that's a lot of XML to filter 4 files
I guess that this requirement comes from the plexus container, but
it's a tangible annoyance that would help to reduce pom complexity if
there was a way of fixing it - and yes I know you can use an IDE to
simplify/auto-complete writing your pom, but that's irrelevant - I
shouldn't have to use an IDE to edit my build/make/pom file - tools
are there to make your life easier, they shouldn't be a requirement.
Enough moaning, I'll checkout the mvn srcs and start writing javadoc
patches etc, maybe I can fix my pet peeves :p
Kev
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