Jane: From the GlassFish installation in "modules" folder, you can
create symlinks to the maven artifact in the target folder.
Byron: Great Idea! As soon as you start working on a module, go create
the symlink. You can also do it on Windows with Junctions [1]
[1]
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx
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On 5/13/2010 10:00 AM, Jane Young wrote:
> Hi Yamini,
>
> Yamini K B wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to v3 and am just getting started with it. I'm able to do the
>> builds successfully but I have some questions:
>
> Welcome to GlassFish 3.1!
>>
>> 1. Re-build (i.e svn update; mvn -U clean install) of complete
>> sources takes very long at times (nearly an hour on on my laptop
>> running Ubuntu) How can I speed this up?
> The "-U" option will check for the updated releases and SNAPSHOTs
> artifacts on the remote repositories. This will take a long time,
> since the GlassFish references 8 remote repositories (we use Nexus as
> the proxy server so there is one reference point in the pom) and maven
> communicates to these repositories to search for the updated
> artifacts. If you have one successful build which means your local
> Maven repository (by default it's <uesr-home>/.m2/repository) is
> populated with the artifacts referenced in GlassFish v3 workspace,
> then you don't need to use "-U".
> Also, once you have a successful build, you can build selected modules
> in the v3 directory by using the "-pl or --projects" option.
>
> e.g.
> mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=/export/GlassFish/Apr20/repository -pl
> admin,common install
>> 2. When ever I re-build, I unzip the target glassfish.zip afresh. In
>> v2 recompiling wasn't trouble at all since build automatically
>> publishes the jars into the lib folder. Recompiling 1-2 modules and
>> copying the jars into modules folder is ok, but this manual copying
>> is not possible when updating and building at the top most level. Is
>> there a better way to do this?
>>
>
> The other option is to modify the pom file and change the default
> target directory to the GlassFish module directory but I don't advice
> doing this since poms are part of the build and under source control,
> so it can be accidentally committed.
>
> Thanks,
> Jane
>> I've read the developer instructions, FAQs etc. but any other tips
>> and tricks for quick develop-test-debug cycle would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Yamini
>>
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