2008/8/19 Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But isn't this a pretty common use case? I mean, launching a Java > application happens pretty often in most Java development life cycles. You > can only go so far with unit tests; eventually you need to run the thing and > see how it looks.
Not generally within the main build lifecycle (so in fact, you can probably remove the <executions> element entirely). > > Even if this were an atypical use case, in Ant there are mechanisms for > reducing complex blocks of code to simple statements. MacroDef and > PreSetDef, for example. Is there a similar mechanism in Maven? That is what plugins are for, though admittedly the XML to construct them is quite verbose at the moment. - Brett -- Brett Porter Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
