Upayavira wrote: > However, if we think of a newcomer to Cocoon, I can see this as being > unnecessarily complicated. Why are some things in pom.xml and others in > block.xml? Well, er, because Maven doesn't know how to handle the stuff > in block.xml. >
A newcomer would not need to edit/view pom.xml or block.xml, he would use an archetype initially and the deployer afterwards to get him going developing cocoon apps. Furthermore, we can't at this point be 100% sure which information will stay in the pom when deploying it to the repository. I talked about this with the maven people a while ago, have a look at [1] Regards Jorg [1] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEPLOY-7
