On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ian Marshall <[email protected]>wrote:
> Martin Grigorov-4 wrote > > Hi Ian, > > > > Thanks for sharing ! > > > > May I ask you why you avoid Maven ? > > With Maven (and similar dependency management tools) I just change X.Y.Z > > to > > X.Y.Z+1 in one place and continue working without bothering with all > these > > steps. > > 1. The documentation for Google App Engine for Java (GAE/J) specifies > I see. Google doesn't like Maven. > certain Ant scripts for doing useful things such as application building > and > DataNucleus JDO datastore code "enhancement", so I do not want to drop Ant. > > 2. I know almost nothing above Maven, except that this seems to be simple > to use with little configuration required to obtain the .jar (and source?) > files needed (and perhaps build an application too?). > > 3. I do not know if Maven and Ant are incompatible, although I feel that > they are. > > To conclude, I feel that Maven is good and the "modern, sensible way to > go", > but for now I'll stick to Ant, in order to avoid the possible requirement > to > change all my GAE/J Ant scripts to Maven things. > > I'm happy to be told that I am wrong in all this! > > I had to change my procedure for Wicket 6 to include the use of Maven.org, > in order to obtain source code files which I could no longer find in the > download mirrors. I shall be happy to update this procedure in the future > to > reflect future changes or improvements if you want me to (just let me know > where it resides (if you want to use it)), even though I guess that Maven > is > more the future than Ant is. > > > Ian > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Manual-procedure-to-update-Wicket-for-NetBeans-tp4654064p4654092.html > Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > You can check http://ant.apache.org/ivy/. It adds dependency management to Ant. -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com <http://jweekend.com/>
