Re: simple jelly explanation

2003-11-05 Thread James Strachan
On 6 Nov 2003, at 00:43, matt wrote: You could also use ${empty(outputDir)}, or ${outputDir == null}, which are both identical in meaning to ${empty outputDir}. Not quite, empty(outputDir) is also true if outputDir == "" Jelly uses the Jexl Expression Language, which is a superset of JSTL (Jav

RE: cactus plugin and overring war:war

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
You can, but there seems to be some bugs when called from plugins as in this case. Incidentally, I've just had exactly this error, using the maven-cactus-plugin-3.1 distributed with RC1. I had to add junit to my project with the root classloader, although at this point I'm not sure why as the cact

RE: cactus plugin and overring war:war

2003-11-05 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi Daniel, I don't think you're allowed to override existing goals in Maven. You can write pregoals and postgoals though. -Vincent > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Rabe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 November 2003 01:55 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: cactus plugin and over

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:52, Horn, Cameron wrote: > As previously stated, the error was an "OutOfMemory" error that was resolved as > suggested in the build directions, by setting MAVEN_OPTS. I don't blame maven for > the error (well, if it needs it often, perhaps it should be the default), but

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
As previously stated, the error was an "OutOfMemory" error that was resolved as suggested in the build directions, by setting MAVEN_OPTS. I don't blame maven for the error (well, if it needs it often, perhaps it should be the default), but I do blame maven for not handling it correctly. Unless

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
> You have been extremely helpful, which has been the most > promising thing so far. Thank you. On the other hand, it > does seem like maven still needs a heck of a lot of work. Clear information plus thanks should always result in good help :) Remember you are trying to do something (buildin

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
You have been extremely helpful, which has been the most promising thing so far. Thank you. On the other hand, it does seem like maven still needs a heck of a lot of work. It also seems like maven has a very singular way of working that doesn't really suit the way I want to work. Is there in

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
> Tried again, got the right ant-optional. Current maven > wouldn't build (test failure, I think), but that's ok. Yeah, I noticed that. Changelog plugin doesn't build "offline" or behind a firewall. I'll put it in JIRA. > So, questions: > 1) Why the corrupt dependency? How do I prevent this

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
Tried again, got the right ant-optional. Current maven wouldn't build (test failure, I think), but that's ok. Got MAVEN_1_0_B10, the build ended with a "BUILD SUCCESSFUL." Careful persual of the log revealed that there was an OutOfMemory error resulting in a "BUILD FAILURE" earlier in the bui

RE: problems running ant tasks from maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
You probably need to add a junit dependency to your project. You might need to put it in the root classloader (google the maven website). Anyway, you can integrate your ant script into maven.xml really easily. I'd recommend trying that. Actually, I'd recommend the test plugin above all of these, a

problems running ant tasks from maven

2003-11-05 Thread Daniel Rabe
I have an existing ant task set up to run junit. If I invoke it from the command line with "ant test", it works fine. I want to integrate this into maven, so I added the following to maven.xml: When I run "maven zzz" it fails (error messages below). Why would it not run from within maven w

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Do you currently run maven to build a site, or is this just theoretical at this point? If so, the directory you run it from should have a project.xml. If no, you'll need to get that working first. You can find all you need to know on project.xml in the user guide at http://maven.apache.org > ---

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
I am not clear on which project.xml your talking about..Please explain -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:21 PM To: 'Maven Users List' Subject: RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration By default, it will create a new con

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
By default, it will create a new config.xml in the same directory as the project.xml you run it from, so keep a backup :) The project.xml I am referring to is the one you use to build your site. - Brett > -Original Message- > From: Rauf, Saleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday,

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
Which project.xml are you referring to? When say Try running "maven cruisecontrol", and will it override my exisiting confiq.xml file in crusie control? Saleem -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:17 PM To: 'Maven Users Lis

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Try running "maven cruisecontrol" on your project.xml. That should give you a decent config.xml that you can use as a base. You'll find info on the tag in the cruise control documentation. I've only tried it with the most recent version of cruise control. - Brett > -Original Message- >

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
Thanks for Brett Porte, My Manager wants me to this way since, we build all the functionality via cruise control. Can you please elaborated on this more, and maybe give an example of this idea below: add into the cruise control configuration. Thanks in Advance for you help, Saleem -Ori

RE: Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
I'm not sure what you mean, but really it sounds like you just need to add into the cruise control configuration. I prefer to use maven to build my entire project and just call that from cruise control though. - Brett > -Original Message- > From: Rauf, Saleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Maven and Cruise Control Intergration

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
Hi All, Has any one done Maven and Cruise Control Intergration? Currently my Crusie Control does the CVS checkout build, test,junitdoc javadocs, cvs tag version via bootstrap.xml file. All I want to do is use Maven to publish my javadoc, junitdoc, and other type of documentation created by my

cactus plugin and overring war:war

2003-11-05 Thread Daniel Rabe
I'm still a maven novice, so maybe someone can clue me in. I'm seeing some very strange behavior that I just don't understand. I've been playing with the cactus plugin. I've succeeded in building a war, cactifying it, and running the cactus tests. Awesome! BUT then I decided I'd rather let ant bui

RE: Valid Website? Bug Submission?

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
Low priority, understood. I just like things that adhere to standards. Every page on the maven website extends horizontally past 800x600 on Windows, using Opera or IE, *not* just the pages with code samples. I think it required even more space on Safari, but I'm not sure. I know at the end I

Re: simple jelly explanation

2003-11-05 Thread matt
You could also use ${empty(outputDir)}, or ${outputDir == null}, which are both identical in meaning to ${empty outputDir}. Jelly uses the Jexl Expression Language, which is a superset of JSTL (Java Standard Tag Library). To quote from JSTL in Action, "The empty operator determines whether a c

RE: Installing Maven WAS: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Reading the FAQ and other maven documentation helps: http://maven.apache.org/faq.html#build-firewall Would lead you to: http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html#Using%20Proxies - Brett > -Original Message- > From: Rauf, Saleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 6 Novem

RE: Installing Maven WAS: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
I am behind proxy, I can access this site via my browser.My brower has proxy setup. But I don't know how to let maven know about it. -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:23 PM To: 'Maven Users List' Subject: RE: Installing Ma

RE: Installing Maven WAS: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Those aren't all errors. Maven.log gives extra information. >From what I can see, it failed to download some dependencies. Are you beinh d a proxy? Can you access www.ibiblio.org/maven regularly? - Brett > -Original Message- > From: Rauf, Saleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursda

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
Hi I actuall followed the following directions for turbine: -- $Id: README.txt,v 1.9 2003/05/02 14:50:00 quintonm Exp $ Turbine Top Level README ---

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
AHA! The file "ant-optional-1.5.3-1.jar" is corrupt, every single time I download it. Why didn't I check this before... Cleared out my "~/.maven" again just to be sure. Still corrupt. -Original Message- From: Brett Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 7:

RE: Installing Maven WAS: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
Hi I download Maven from http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html and version I got is maven-1.0-rc1.zip, So I unzip the file to directory: C:\MavenPlayground\maven-1.0-rc1\maven-1.0-rc1, where in this directory I have following directories: -bin -lib -plugins -repository maven-projec.xsd I

RE: simple jelly explanation

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Yes. This will evaluate true is the jelly value outputDir is "empty". I think that means null or "", but am not certain. You might also see it written as ${empty(outputDir)} - Brett > -Original Message- > From: Vikas Phonsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2003 11:

simple jelly explanation

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
Hi Guys, I have this line in one of the jelly script in a maven plugin. I don't know jelly but have checked out its major tags. Could you pls help me understand this: I undertand j:if test But in ${empty outputDir}" does empty refers to some inbuilt function of checking the outputDir or what

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Sounds weird. I have WinXP, JDK 1.4.2, Ant 1.5.3-1, no CLASSPATH, no problems :) Any other environment settings that might be influencing? PATH, MAVEN_HOME, ANT_HOME, JAVA_HOME. Your ant installation was unmodified? I do run it on cygwin, maybe that's a difference... > -Original Message-

Re: Eclipse plugin

2003-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Bonevich
Vikas Phonsa wrote: Hi everybody, I'm using eclipse based wsad IDE and after a discussion in this list was trying to use genapp and the eclipse plugins to start my projects. But I'm having some issues. Here's what's going on: 1. If uI se genapp out side the IDE to generate a project folder and the

Installing Maven WAS: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
Much more information needed. The installation doco is designed to help get started. What did you try, and wht didn't work? > -Original Message- > From: Rauf, Saleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2003 11:00 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: Building Maven >

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Rauf, Saleem
Hi All, I am new to Maven, I tired to follow online doc to install it, it didn't work. Can some help me get started. Thanks, Saleem -Original Message- From: Horn, Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:59 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Building Mave

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
Well, I figured out why ant wasn't picking up junit; it apparently needs to be in "lib/optional", not "lib" as specified by ant's manual. However, no dice with ant-1.5.3-1. I get the same error. I'm on WinXP, using Sun's JDK 1.4.1_02. I do not have a CLASSPATH set. -Original Message-

FW: Maven commandline arguments

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
-Original Message- From: Vikas Phonsa Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:24 PM To: 'O'Fallon, Paul (MAN-Corporate)' Subject: RE: Maven commandline arguments Paul, Here is the complete post Hi everybody, I'

RE: Valid Website? Bug Submission?

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
> I was actually referring to the entirety of the website, not > just the > front page. For instance: > http://validator.w3.org/ > check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmaven.apache.org%2Freference%2Fuser-guide.html Well, obviously I didn't have the time to check every page. The problems on here are also tr

RE: Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Brett Porter
This is just a wild guess, but it might be a conflict between ant-1.5.4 being run, and Maven trying to use ant-1.5.3-1 (+optional). I can't think of anything more at this point. Incidentally, I've never had a problem bootstrapping with ant-1.5.3-1 without modifying the ant installation/classpath a

tasklist report problem

2003-11-05 Thread Sonnek, Ryan
Environment: winxp, maven-1.0-rc1, multiproject setup I'm building my multiproject site for my project, and it's failing on my ejb module during the tasklist plugin. I have several other projects that work fine with this same setup, so I can't see why this one is failing. Here's there error mess

RE: Maven commandline arguments

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
Yeah Paul, Thanks for this list Nice to hear from you again. I'm having issues with starting projects with eclipse. I would appreciate if you could take a look at my previous post titled "eclipse plugin" Thanks Vikas -Original Message- From: O'Fallon, Paul (MAN-Corporate) [mailto:[EMA

RE: Maven commandline arguments

2003-11-05 Thread O'Fallon, Paul (MAN-Corporate)
Do you mean this list? >maven --help usage: maven [options] [goal [goal2 [goal3] ...]] Options: -D,--define arg Define a system property -E,--emacsProduce logging information without adornments -X,--debugProduce execution debug output -b,--nobanner Suppress logo banner

Maven commandline arguments

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
Hi, Can somebody point me to the list of command line argument that can be supplied to maven. I'm unable to find that on the website. I was trying to use the eclipse plug in and the documentation about that doesn't mention if I can use any specific commandline argument with that. Thanks Vikas

RE: Best way to exclude a class with the Cactus plugin

2003-11-05 Thread Vincent Massol
Hi Peter, See http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/maven/properties.html for the list of all properties available. There was also a bug WRT the includes/excludes properties that I have fixed recently. See http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/maven/changes-report.html Thanks -Vinc

RE: Genapp goal

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
Yeah sri, I followed the instruction and its working fine. Thanks vikas -Original Message- From: Sri Sankaran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:51 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Genapp goal I don't have the updated jelly file anymore. You should be

RE: Genapp goal

2003-11-05 Thread Sri Sankaran
I don't have the updated jelly file anymore. You should be able to apply exactly the changes I have suggested. Updating Maven-provided plugins is a slippery slope -- for obvious reasons. We lean more towards writing our own plug-ins for customizations -- calling available plug-ins to do the b

Bullets in the nav menu

2003-11-05 Thread Sri Sankaran
Using: Maven 1.0 rc1 How can I display a bulleted list in my navigation menu? * Due to the style sheet settings, using elements doesn't look presentable. And, no I don't want to create my own style-sheet * I cannot use • 'cause it gets treated as an XML entity reference * Using the character

Best way to exclude a class with the Cactus plugin

2003-11-05 Thread Peter Bright
Hello. I have an abstract test case to test an abstract class (similar to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AbstractTestCases). The abstract test case extends ServletTestCase, as the tests are in-container tests using Cactus. Currently when running the maven goal maven attempts to run instantiate the (abst

Re: Tag Library Dependencies

2003-11-05 Thread Gilles Dodinet
Pat, just add the tlds to the dependencies list ('tld' type) and they should be copied in the produced artifact in ${maven.war.tld.dir} http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/war/properties.html#tld_dir -- gd Bateman Pat UK MYT wrote: How do I make a WEB Application project dependent on TL

Eclipse plugin

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
Hi everybody, I'm using eclipse based wsad IDE and after a discussion in this list was trying to use genapp and the eclipse plugins to start my projects. But I'm having some issues. Here's what's going on: 1. If uI se genapp out side the IDE to generate a project folder and then use eclipse goal

RE: Genapp goal

2003-11-05 Thread Vikas Phonsa
Sri, Thanks for your reply. Is it possible for you to send me the modified files. Thanks Vikas -Original Message- From: Sri Sankaran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 5:39 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Genapp goal > -Original Message- > From:

Building Maven

2003-11-05 Thread Horn, Cameron
I'm building with ant1.5.4, with optional.jar containing the junit taskdefs, including FormatterElement$TypeAttribute. (Had to add junit.jar to the CLASSPATH when building ant, rather than just sticking it in ant\lib as the documentation claimed). The clean-maven-home task fails as follows. Thi

Specifying effective working directory with -d

2003-11-05 Thread Vikram_Kumar
I'm trying to call maven and set the working directory using -d which is in a different location but maven does not look in the specified directory. Has anyone tried to do this ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: CVS executable invocation error

2003-11-05 Thread nick.giles
Done, thanks for your help. Nick > -Original Message- > From: Eric Pugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 November 2003 15:38 > To: 'Maven Users List' > Subject: RE: CVS executable invocation error > > > I would take the "simplest path". Since you found the bug > while working >

Re: project.properties inheritance

2003-11-05 Thread Eric Berenguier
Hello, Eric Berenguier wrote: Does current maven version supports project.properties inheritance when using tag ? I've read about the trick using in maven.xml (see http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=MAVEN-37) I'd like to have the following property in my project.property : ma

Valid Website? Bug Submission?

2003-11-05 Thread camhorn
> HTML validator only gives one error: > http://validator.w3.org/ check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmaven.apache.org&charset=%28d > etect+automatically%29&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Transitional I was actually referring to the entirety of the website, not just the front page. For instance: http://validator.w3.o

RE: CVS executable invocation error

2003-11-05 Thread Eric Pugh
I would take the "simplest path". Since you found the bug while working with the changelog plugin, it is likely that others who have this problem will also be stumbling across it in the changelog plugin. So, just to get you started, what you want to do is checkout the changelog plugin from CVS.

RE: Taglibs project

2003-11-05 Thread Bateman Pat UK MYT
In the Maven project directory structure, where do you store your TLD files? Pat -Original Message- From: Janne Kario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 November 2003 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Taglibs project Hi, I'm about to start a taglib-project which produces 2 artifact

Tag Library Dependencies

2003-11-05 Thread Bateman Pat UK MYT
How do I make a WEB Application project dependent on TLDs within the Struts Maven repository. Thanks Pat - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CVS executable invocation error

2003-11-05 Thread nick.giles
Good idea, however, I have no idea how I would go about that... Do I put a bug in on the JIRA bug tracker, then add a patch? Bit of a newbie question I know, but everyone has a first time. If it is the JIRA page that I should use, which category does the SCM plugin come under, since I can't find a

RE: CVS executable invocation error

2003-11-05 Thread Eric Pugh
Would you like to submit a faq patch? Just look at the faq plugin and add a xdocs\faq.fml! Eric > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: CVS executable invocation error >

Re: JUnit Test Temp Directory

2003-11-05 Thread Alain Javier Guarnieri del Gesu
* Peter Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-03 22:14]: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:59 am, Alain Javier Guarnieri del Gesu wrote: > > What do you feel is the best place to create temporary files and > > directories for a unit test? > > > > Should I use a directory under target? > > > > Should I create

RE: CVS executable invocation error

2003-11-05 Thread nick.giles
In case anyone cares, I've found a solution to this problem. The issue is that the path to the CVS executable contained spaces, which confused some piece of code. Moving the exectuable to a path without spaces sorted it completely. The perils of using a windows platform I guess... Nick > -Or

Ant standard error output stream

2003-11-05 Thread Dominik Roblek
I have maven.xml which calls Ant task. The problem is, that I cannot see messages written by Ant on "standard error output stream". The Maven's -X switch does not help here. Is there a way to tell Maven to log messages written by Ant on "standard error output stream"? They are often very critical