Re: Premature decomposition of projects

2013-11-22 Thread Ziga GREGORIC
Jeff, maybe I'm missing the point, but to have the possibility to define a SNAPSHOT version of a dependency is the beauty of maven IMHO. Having said that, I would not feel safe in a large project where lots of dependencies are SNAPSHOT dependencies. But when you have a continuous integration serve

Re: Premature decomposition of projects

2013-11-22 Thread Jeff MAURY
Having a build using non identified dependencies (LATEST,...) is a VERY bad practice: the build is not reproducible and your team will not have attentions on dependencies versions. A non existing case for me. Jeff On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Viktor Sadovnikov wrote: > Hello, > > Here is an

Re: Premature decomposition of projects

2013-11-22 Thread Baptiste Mathus
Wasn't it just the mvn -U to force updating snapshots you were looking for? Cheers 2013/11/22 Russell Gold > It’s also an attempt to create a modular system, in hopes of minimizing > codebase size and providing custom functionality. It’s thus closely related > to a lot of the modularity ideas

Re: Premature decomposition of projects

2013-11-22 Thread Russell Gold
It’s also an attempt to create a modular system, in hopes of minimizing codebase size and providing custom functionality. It’s thus closely related to a lot of the modularity ideas that have come and gone over time, without the judgment of what is properly a “module.” I’ve seen multi-hundred mod

Re: Premature decomposition of projects

2013-11-22 Thread Ron Wheeler
Looks like a kludge to get around a poor SOA architecture with too many inter-module dependencies and an unwillingness to build mock objects for testing. In our house, SNAPSHOTS posted to Nexus come with a warranty that they meet a subset of the spec that is known. If someone doesn't like that

Premature decomposition of projects

2013-11-22 Thread Viktor Sadovnikov
Hello, Here is an interesting article about dependencies management and builds with Maven, which can become unnecessary overcomplicated http://bit.ly/1dn9ZZL With regards, Viktor

Re: Force custom mojo to always skip modules

2013-11-22 Thread Oscar Picasso
Thanks. It works. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Robert Scholte wrote: > Hi Oscar, > > yes, we call it aggregator: > http://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/maven-plugin-annotations/apidocs/org/ > apache/maven/plugins/annotations/Mojo.html#aggregator() > > Robert > > Op Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:50:2