Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-22 Thread Stanislav Ochotnicky
Excerpts from Jesse Farinacci's message of Thu Dec 22 18:32:01 +0100 2011: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Deepesh Garg wrote: > > > I share your pain, but couldn't find anything close when it comes to > > installing java apps. > > > I don't think there is a standard for that, n

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-22 Thread Jesse Farinacci
Greetings, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Deepesh Garg wrote: > I share your pain, but couldn't find anything close when it comes to > installing java apps. I don't think there is a standard for that, nor do I think it is required. The shared library mechanism employed by Linux and other hi

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-22 Thread Deepesh Garg
Appreciate your response. On 22 December 2011 13:51, Jesse Farinacci wrote: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Deepesh Garg wrote: > > > 1) Have a new packaging type which indicate that this is an installable > > application. Pom file for such apps can include things like descrip

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-22 Thread Jesse Farinacci
Greetings, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Deepesh Garg wrote: > 1) Have a new packaging type which indicate that this is an installable > application. Pom file for such apps can include things like description, > display name, icon file, location to put application launchers, type of > applica

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-22 Thread Deepesh Garg
> -- Forwarded message -- > From: Deepesh Garg > To: dev@maven.apache.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:28:33 +0000 > Subject: Using maven as appstore for java app > Hi, > I was wondering if maven repository structure can be exploited to also > d

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-22 Thread Simone Tripodi
For what it worths, I totally agree :) I've been looking for ages for a Java solution that allows sharing libraries in applications and the Appassembler ATM makes me satisfied :) best, -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetr

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-21 Thread Brett Porter
As Wayne suggested, you can use Maven to assemble and distribute an application. For a runtime, using a maven repository makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't use Maven itself for this, but Maven's libraries for interacting with a repository. This is being used in lots of other applications, for exam

Re: Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-21 Thread Wayne Fay
> I was wondering if maven repository structure can be exploited to also > distribute java applications. Same repository structure may be used on I'm sure this is already happening in some firms. You may find the Codehaus Mojo appassembler project [1] and/or the Webstart project [2] to be helpful

Using maven as appstore for java app

2011-12-21 Thread Deepesh Garg
Hi, I was wondering if maven repository structure can be exploited to also distribute java applications. Same repository structure may be used on client side for installing and launching java apps. I see many benefit in doing so (cleaner application packaging, minimum download, standard directory s