Re: (big) Problems using assembly plugin to create executable jar

2007-03-23 Thread Pierre-Yves Saumont
Thanks ! I knew that the lines could be broken, but I did not know that they could be broken in the middle of a jar name! So I thought this was one cause of my problem. In fact, it is not. The problem is with the assembly descriptors. But I think I will eventually find a solution know I "know"

(big) Problems using assembly plugin to create executable jar

2007-03-23 Thread Pierre-Yves Saumont
Hi, I am trying to use maven2 assembly plug-in. It seems to be completely broken: - First, a small problem: the standard assembly descriptor is not usable because of it very strange name. If the app is called "myapp", the resulting jar will be called myapp-jar-with-dependencies.jar. It seems

Re: how do i turn off inclusion of all transitive dependencies? in 2.0.4

2006-08-31 Thread Pierre-Yves Saumont
This is explained very clearly in the documentation: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html (look at section "Depencdency scope") Here is an example: I use Wicket, which is dependent on log4j through teh following declaration in wicket-parent pom

Re: [POLL] Why switch to Maven?

2006-08-30 Thread Pierre-Yves Saumont
I switched to Maven 2 because I was tired of Ant. When one looks at a good Java project, one can find its way easyly because there are well known architecturing and coding standards. There are no such things with Ant. I remember trying to find my way in Ant scripts calling other Ant scripts, a