Re: Switching Lifecycles on other things than packaging

2013-07-05 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
I think there are some little inconsistencies in vocabulary, causing wrong analysis there are 3 lifecycles: default, clean and site [1] and packaging selects default plugin bindings for default lifecycle [2] For the moment, I didn't dig sufficiently into everything to have every answers and r

Re: Switching Lifecycles on other things than packaging

2013-07-05 Thread Barrie Treloar
So what I am saying it that its only the packaging the defines which lifecycle will be used. You can't use files/paths. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven

Re: Switching Lifecycles on other things than packaging

2013-07-05 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
Hello Barrie, I know that :-) Our parent pom defines literally dozens of plugins, configures them *and* adds a few profiles which change the configuration and the plugins called on the existence of files, the environment (running in Jenkins?) and I hoped I could split stuff a bit. Regards Mirko -

Re: Switching Lifecycles on other things than packaging

2013-07-05 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 6 July 2013 15:39, Mirko Friedenhagen wrote: > Hello there, > > is there a way to switch to a different lifecycle depending on e.g. a > path/file etc? Or is the agreed way to just have another packaging? The lifecycle for the pom comes from packaging. The plugins that pom declares then attach

Lifecycles and configuration of plugins

2013-07-05 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
Hello, I see that versions of plugins are either manageable in the pom or in the lifecycle. Now what about configurations of plugins? May these be hidden as well in an extension/plugin? I want to hide this because a lot of application developers look at our company POM and shudder because of it'

Switching Lifecycles on other things than packaging

2013-07-05 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
Hello there, is there a way to switch to a different lifecycle depending on e.g. a path/file etc? Or is the agreed way to just have another packaging? Regards Mirko -- Sent from my mobile

Re: "The Maven way" for delivery pipelines

2013-07-05 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
Stephen, Russel, thanks for your suggestions so far. I will take a look into the plugins you mentioned. Our operations department is using puppet and I did some tiny steps with. I agree it feels a bit like Maven because it is declarative as well. Now Ruby is IMO Python's perlish brother, so I am

Re: "The Maven way" for delivery pipelines

2013-07-05 Thread Stephen Connolly
On Friday, 5 July 2013, Mirko Friedenhagen wrote: > Hello, > > now after some trial and error with custom packaging and lifecycles I > ask myself whether I should proceed or do something completely > different. > > What I want to achieve: > - We have loads of web-applications (WARs with a homegrow

Re: "The Maven way" for delivery pipelines

2013-07-05 Thread Russell Gold
Hi Mirko, Have you looked at the Cargo plugin? http://cargo.codehaus.org/Functional+testing - Russ On Jul 5, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Mirko Friedenhagen wrote: > Hello, > > now after some trial and error with custom packaging and lifecycles I > ask myself whether I should proceed or do something co

"The Maven way" for delivery pipelines

2013-07-05 Thread Mirko Friedenhagen
Hello, now after some trial and error with custom packaging and lifecycles I ask myself whether I should proceed or do something completely different. What I want to achieve: - We have loads of web-applications (WARs with a homegrown configuration tooling) - Some are single module projects, some