Greetings again. It was pointed out that many people on this list do not know what Maven is. Fair enough. Maven (http://maven.apache.org/) is an automated build infrastructure that allows for, well, automated command-line builds. This is typically done in enterprises or projects where there are multiple environments, or complex, interdependent projects.
A simple way to look at maven, is that it is an alternative to Ant or Make, but works quite differently in style. This plugin allows you to define flex projects with maven project metadata, which then allows these projects to be built within Maven, packaged and deployed via the maven repository infrastructure, and it can participate in the dependency management that Maven is known for. This announcement is likely to be more of interest to build managers, and senior technologists who are responsible for putting the pieces of a project together, rather than developers who are working in Flex to develop features. regards, Christian. Christian Edward Gruber wrote: > > Greetings all. > > It is my pleasure to make this announcement. An early early release > of Flex Maven Plugin is now being synced to the ibiblio main > repository. The repository documentation can be found at > http://www.israfil.net/projects/mojo/maven-flex2-plugin/. > <http://www.israfil.net/projects/mojo/maven-flex2-plugin/.> This project > is BSD licensed, except where I use others' code that is already Apache > licensed. I do not have an anonymous source code repository - I will > work on that when I get back, but the sources and javadocs are all on > ibiblio per standard maven open-source deployment. > > This version is an early alpha. The posted version only runs on JDK > 1.5, and doesn't include the ability to link .swcs that are deployed in > maven repositories. Within the next day or so alpha2 should be on the > ibiblio server, and this will include 1.4 compatible binaries, as well > as the above mentioned dependency handling. > > Most of the command-line options are supported, though those that > require lists of .swcs or folders may not exist or function in the same > way as the command-line tools yet. Some of this behaviour will be built > out and corrected as I discover how it needs to work in a maven, > dependency-aware context. > > I'm going on a small holiday for about two and a half weeks. I will > post the second alpha for people to test. I have not yet set up a bug > tracking system, but I will be doing so, as well as a continuous > integration server that will build it and its test projects. One way > people can help is to play with it, and develop test project > configurations that they would like to see work and submit them to me > with some explanation of what seems to be missing. The documentation on > the site includes cross-referenced source as well, which is convenient > for browsing. Bug reports are welcome. Bug fixes are even moreso. > There is a lot of cleanup I intend to do in the source, so simple > cleanup comments are less helpful. It is alpha after all. I have test > projects which I have not deployed from which I derived the usage > documentation. 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