> Why not allow an expanded dialect for the pom files (if it's not already in > progress)? By that I mean open-up the format via some sort of plugin > mechanism or core support so pom files could be written in other languages > aside from XML. Perhaps something like JSON? I'm no JSON expert, but it > seems to be alot less hand-coding and concise when compared to XML and could > lead to much less tedium when writing poms by hand and should be just as > flexible. No intention to start a war with this comment, it's just always > been a curiosity point for me. >
You should check out Polyglot Maven [1]. /Anders [1] http://polyglot.sonatype.org/
