+1 for 2.1 Arnaud
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM, 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. >
