+1 for 2.1, -1 for 2.0.10
On 5/4/08, nicolas de loof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  As you can read at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/
>  *" J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period*.
>  The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th,
>  2008"
>
>  I don't think we have plan yet to release maven 2.1, so I think it would be
>  a valid to require java 1.5 as minimal runtime.
>
>  Main beneficts (IMHO) :
>
>  - annotation can replace javadoc-style IoC an Maven plugin declarations
>  (code allready available :
>  http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Java+5+Annotations+for+Plugins)
>  - jsr-250 annotations can replace some plexus interfaces ( LogEnabled ->
>  @Resource('log') , Initializable --> @PostConstruct ...) and make component
>  more "standard" and accessible to developpers without plexus knowledge.
>  - generics can make the maven model more comprehensible. The current
>  "Collection project.getArtifacts()" is not really clear and the fiew
>  available javadoc don't help a lot.
>
>  Other possible improvements :
>
>  - plugin test tool could use jUnit 4 runners to create something comparable
>  to spring-test-context :
>  annotate your plugin test class with @Runwith( "MavenPluginTestRunner" )
>  @Pom( "myTestPom.xml" )
>  and the test will prepare the plugin set in the test pom and inject it in
>  the test class.
>  - benefict from java.util.concurrent to do some tasks in parallel ? Example
>  : dependencies downloading
>  - any other ?
>
>
>  WDYT ?
>
>
>  Nicolas.
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to