I'm jumping on this thread to ask some more questions about maven. We are looking at maven to help with our custom deployments. Here are some of our objectives:
1. We use ofbiz in all our applications. We like the component structure and are not interested in creating specific war and ear files for our applications (a feature the maven is very good at). 2. We would like to use the existing ofbiz ant targets to handle all build and data loading tasks. In other words, we don't want to rewrite working solutions or move away from ofbiz standards. 3. Our applications use various open source projects such as ofbiz, dojo, and selenium. We would like to use maven to handle the dependencies between these projects. For example, we want our developers to just type 'mvn install' to get their system setup with the correct versions of all the software. We run into problems when developer A is using version X of ofbiz while another developer is using version Y. I believe maven would be good for this kind of task. 4. We don't change a lot of ofbiz code, but we do change configuration files (e.g. various ofbiz-component.xml files, debug.properties, mail server settings, etc). We would like maven to allow us to change configuration settings more easily. Currently, we have to make the changes manually which takes time and is error prone. We would like to hide these details from the system admins and developers so all they have to run is some thing like 'mvn install development' or 'mvn install production'. Would maven help us achieve these types of objectives? We know we could do the same with ant but it looks like maven would be better suited for these types of tasks. Any thoughts on this subject is greatly appreciated. Brett On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ashish Vijaywargiya <vijaywargiya.ash...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am also interested to know few details about doing this. > Thanks Shi for taking initiative of this. > > -- > Ashish > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jacques Le Roux < > jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > >> What would this be helpful for ? Have you an idea in mind ? >> >> Jacques >> >> From: "Shi Yusen" <sh...@langhua.cn> >> >> I deployed the OFBiz 09.04 jars and sources.jars to >>> http://maven2.langhua.org/public/ofbiz/ >>> >>> If you find anything wrong or missing, please feedback to me. >>> >>> Have a nice weekend, >>> >>> Shi Yusen/Beijing Langhua Ltd. >>> >>> >>> >> >
