Hi Justin, Interestingly, I was just some days ago thinking about such a plugin while trying to merge the launchpad/app and launchpad/webapp projects into the launchpad/bundles project.
I think, if we can create a plugin, which can be configured to include some bundles and package them up to create a webapp and a standalone app in a single project, this would probably help alot. Will post a prototype project descriptor of my app/webapp/bundles merge exercise tomorrow. Definitely +1 to do such a plugin. Can you give it a try ? Regards Felix Justin Edelson schrieb: > I saw some activity regarding the creation of some Maven archetypes for > Sling projects. Before going down that path, I'd like to suggest enhancing > the maven-sling-plugin with a new goal which will handle much of the > configuration being done now via the maven-dependency-plugin. Specifically, > I think the following can be done inside a single goal: > * Unpacking the org.apache.sling.launchpad.bundles assembly in the correct > location. > * Placing the base JAR file in the correct location > * Adding additional bundles to the start level-based directory name > > The most significant benefit of doing this is to dramatically simplify the > pom files. The dependency plugin plus the org.apache.sling.launchpad.bundles > dependency takes up about 80 LOC (more once/if my patch for SLING-1179 is > committed) and I think this can be reduced to around 20. This is also > obviously less error-prone. > > The other benefit is to reduce the (already proven to be error-prone) > duplication of the launchpad.base version in the pom. I'm proposing that > this new goal in the sling Maven plugin extract the base version from the > dependency list. > > I imagine that this goal would use the packaging type to automatically > adjust to the differences in building a standalone app vs. a webapp (i.e. > automatically include pax-web in standalone mode and felix-bridge in webapp > mode). > > You can see a brief sample of what I'm describing here: > http://gist.github.com/233240 > > Thoughts? > > Justin >
