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

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Brett Porter
Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/

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