Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-03-02 Thread Dan Tran
If i have to repeatedly doing the same thing every day maven plugin is a way to go since I can run it any where i like as long as maven installed and point to our central maven repo. -D On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Terence Stephens terence.steph...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-03-02 Thread Paul King
I would also recommend gradle for your circumstances. If you were thinking of using ant, all the ant tasks are available for your in gradle but it has maven's style of convention over configuration for the part's like building Java code which have a well-defined lifecycle. Cheers, Paul. On Thu,

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi, I'm looking for a tool that will help me: Build Java Code Move Php code to a different location on my computer Create New Directories on the server and upload content to them (via FTP over SSL or maybe SSH) Download whole directories and then zip of the contents sounds like you need a thing

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-03-01 Thread John R. Todd
Hello, Long time maven user, new to the alias.. You could probably do all of this in Maven w/ plugins, ant, etc. but you may want to look at a small ensemble of tools to accomplish the work flow as you've layed out. I'm thinking Jenkins to build using the maven plugin and either the ant

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-03-01 Thread Terence Stephens
Thanks for all the replies. I'm tempted to use Maven just because I think it's the more valuable tool to learn, but I'll probably go with Ant for the first iteration. There have been a lot of other tools suggested as well. I'll do more research on those and will hopefully decide next week.

Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Terence Stephens
I'm looking for a tool that will help me: Build Java Code Move Php code to a different location on my computer Create New Directories on the server and upload content to them (via FTP over SSL or maybe SSH) Download whole directories and then zip of the contents I know I could do this in a shell

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Terence Stephens terence.steph...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a tool that will help me: Build Java Code Move Php code to a different location on my computer Create New Directories on the server and upload content to them (via FTP over SSL or maybe SSH)

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Yuen-Chi Lian
For such scripting with phases, I find rake (or make) to be more suitable than ant or Maven. Or try BuildR. Yuen-Chi Lian | www.yclian.com I do not seek; I find. - Pablo Picasso 2012/3/1 Terence Stephens terence.steph...@gmail.com I'm looking for a tool that will help me: Build Java Code

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Ron Wheeler
I would have suggested Ant since it is easy to use, widely supported with documentation, books and examples. It can do damn near anything. make seems awfully obscure but it is used a lot for installation. maven does not seem like a good fit. Ron On 29/02/2012 10:20 PM, Yuen-Chi Lian wrote:

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Néstor Boscán
Although I really like maven, and use it in all my projects, maven is tightly integrated with the project lifecycle (clean, compile, package, install, deploy ,etc) so ant looks like a better fit for what you're looking for. Néstor On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Ron Wheeler

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Brian Topping
Adding to the valid observations of others, I'd first consider the size of the project, number of people that are going to be using it and their experience with Maven. If you want do to such a build cleanly with Maven, the best way to do it is by creating or obtaining plugins for the various

Re: Is Maven the answer?

2012-02-29 Thread Johan Erlands
On Thursday 01 March 2012 03:57:59 Terence Stephens wrote: I know I could do this in a shell script, but I think I would have better luck with a Java based tool. This is outside the scope of Maven's uses. For my needs, should I look into using Maven or find a different tool? Maybe gradle is