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Re: HEADS UP: Source Tree Reorg

From: Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:16:39 -0400

Jason,

Why Maven? What about just using Ivy and Ant, or maybe even Gradle?

I like the dependency management part of Maven, but the rest of it...
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Jason Lee <jason_at_steeplesoft.com> wrote:
> Ryan and I have been discussing migrating the Mojarra 2 build system to
> Maven for some time now, and we'd like to get that ball rolling.  What we'd
> like to do is continue using the ant build while we get the Maven build
> ready, then, when we're comfortable with it, just start issuing different
> commands to build.  To allow for this "parallel" migration, we'd like to
> reorganize the tree into the Maven standard format, and updating the ant
> build to reflect that.  This will allow us to write simpler POMs as we test
> Maven-based versions of our various build tasks.
>
> If there are no complaints, I will likely begin sometime this evening (with
> Ryan's blessing) modifying the jsf-api sub-tree.  In theory, this should be
> fairly transparent, with the possible exception of IDE project files (which
> we won't need once we're on Maven. :)
>
> Are there any complaints or concerns?  I hope all that made sense.  If not,
> you know where to find me. :)
>
> Jason Lee, SCJP
> President, Oklahoma City Java Users Group
> Senior Java Developer, Sun Microsystems
> http://blogs.steeplesoft.com
>
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