Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
Wendy Smoak wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: I suggested some rewording and table changes and provided an example to the web page on transitive dependencies (http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Transitive_Dependencie

Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-09 Thread Wendy Smoak
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: > I suggested some rewording and table changes and provided an example to the > web page on transitive dependencies > (http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Transitive_Dependencies) > to make it mor

Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-09 Thread Ron Wheeler
I agree with your comments about the documentation. It needs some outside review to get the organization more oriented to the new person. The definitive guide is missing some of the things that you need to actually build something functional. I suggested some rewording and table changes and

Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-09 Thread Mark H. Wood
As good and as pervasive as Maven is, if you review build tools then you may want to take a look at Ivy too. I plan to. Yes, Maven is hard to learn. The web site doesn't quite seem to be organized either for learning *or* for reference. The only book I could find when I went looking for one, _M

Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-09 Thread Bob Aiello
who were, as you say, "a higher caliber maven user" than I am today. I appreciate your comments which I am reviewing and I am glad to refactor my article on "Refactoring the Maven build", but I suspect that I am not the only person struggling to get up to speed with maven. P

Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-08 Thread Justin Edelson
as largely due to using the wrong parent child relationship. (also see "Use an organizational POM") In any case, thanks for writing this and getting the word out. Justin On 3/8/10 9:39 AM, Jesse Farinacci wrote: > Hi Bob, > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Bob Aie

Re: Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-08 Thread Jesse Farinacci
Hi Bob, On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Bob Aiello wrote: > > I just wrote an article on tactics for refactoring the Maven build and I > would love to get your input. > http://www.cmcrossroads.com/cm-basics/13317-refactoring-the-maven-build > > Feel free to post comments

Refactoring the Maven Build

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Aiello
Hi everyone, I just wrote an article on tactics for refactoring the Maven build and I would love to get your input. http://www.cmcrossroads.com/cm-basics/13317-refactoring-the-maven-build Feel free to post comments or send them to me privately. Bob Aiello Editor in Chief CM Crossroads http