Interested in this thread as I am in the same situation with large set
of projects in Eclipse that I mung into a final application with a
combination of Ant tasks and shell scripts. Also need to handle two
sets of developers, one set uses Mac OS X, the other Vista. Want to
be able to check into and out of our subversion the exact same
project, but allow in pom for differences in platform locations.
Good advice appreciated here. Have read first 1/2 of the new Maven2
book. Thanks for advice and protocol.
On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Steve Cohen wrote:
I am considering"Mavenizing" a pre-existing project.
This project consists of a Web Application (WAR file) and a server
side JAR module, built from several Eclipse projects, some of which
are dependencies of both modules, as well as many third party jars,
both open source (many of which themselves use Maven, of course) and
proprietary.
Current build process is very rudimentary. The Eclipse projects do
not currently use Maven naming standards for directories. To do
builds, the simple Eclipse Export menu options are currently used.
Deployment is manual and there are some annoying manual post-export
tasks that must be run. Version control uses subversion, including
a big ugly "project" containing static copies of binary jars. These
are my main reasons for considering conversion to Maven.
Questions:
1. Are there articles around detailing "war stories" about making
the kind of move I am contemplating? I would like to read such
before I get started. I have just purchased Maven: The Definitive
Guide, and while the information there is very good, it tends to
assume a start from scratch. I would like to keep the history in
the Subversion respository if possible.
2. Would I be better served by renaming directories at the start to
Maven "Convention over Configuration" standards or by overrriding
the defaults all the way down the line?
3. Would I be better off building a local network repository
containing both the open source and proprietary code needed or would
it be better to create a local repository only for the proprietary
stuff and get the open source stuff from a remote repository.
Thanks.
Steve Cohen
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