hi, so played around a bit and created a branch
https://github.com/mkristian/jruby/tree/pom-ng there is a pom-ng.xml which does compile (hopefully in the same manner as ant compile-jruby) by $ mvn -f pom-ng.xml compile this does use only maven central and a few artifacts from ./localrepo repository in which I copied those jars from ./build_lib the tzdata stuff I also implemented up to using joda to compile the timezone files but then I got stuck since the purpose of those files is not really clear ! the localrepo is meant as a temporary hack to get the pom-ng.xml without asking people to manually install a couple of jars into their local maven repo. you can trigger that via $ mvn -f pom-ng.xml compile -Ptzdata the Constants.java is also patched beside the tzdata value - again some lack of understanding of the tzdata thingy. I have to admit that these huge xml files are clumpy and difficult to comprehend. I personally usually ruby-maven which comes with ruby DSL for the pom files and can generate a pom.xml on the fly for maven. it just comes with a compact syntax and is much more pleasant to the eyes. it can be also embedded into a Rakefile. but that is my personal preference !!! currently I will not put time into all the external dependencies like the ones from the localrepo and focus on getting the maven working until jruby can be executed. - christian
