Hi, For those who are interested in incremental builds we, at Takari, have released a general purpose incremental build API with an initial focus on Maven. We've created a short, high-level description of the framework[1] and we've opened up our Git repository with the code[2]. We also have a some demos that people can look at[3]. We are, and have been, running this code in production for a few months but it is still a work in progress. We have implemented a Maven lifecycle that integrates this API but we've just started using it ourselves. We will open this lifecycle up shortly for people to try but for now, if you're interested in incremental builds take a look and let us know what you think!
A note to those interested that the use of the API in Maven requires 3.2.1+. [1]: http://takari.io/2014/03/25/incremental-build.html [2]: https://github.com/takari/io.takari.incrementalbuild [3]: https://github.com/takari/io.takari.incrementalbuild/tree/master/incrementalbuild/src/test/java/io/takari/incremental/demo Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- People develop abstractions by generalizing from concrete examples. Every attempt to determine the correct abstraction on paper without actually developing a running system is doomed to failure. No one is that smart. A framework is a resuable design, so you develop it by looking at the things it is supposed to be a design of. The more examples you look at, the more general your framework will be. -- Ralph Johnson & Don Roberts, Patterns for Evolving Frameworks
