Re: Strategies for converting from Ant

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Topping
The largest build I converted to Maven was about five years ago, and it had roughly 100 projects in Ant. Intriguingly, they had written an Ant plugin to process Eclipse project metadata. It strikes me you might be able to take the same shortcut with your project if your build is somehow able t

Re: Strategies for converting from Ant

2010-09-23 Thread Greg Akins
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, David Karr wrote: > I work on a pretty large project that uses Ant for builds. We're doing some > research on converting to Maven.  I'd like to describe some of the elements > of our situation, hopefully to find some conceptual "cookbook" strategies > for those asp

Re: Strategies for converting from Ant

2010-09-23 Thread Jon Paynter
David, Im looking at exactly the same thing - moving from ant to maven. One of the first things I ran into was maven's concept of one artifact per project. With ant its quite easy to take a set of files for a webapp, and create both an ear and war file, and be ready for deployment. With maven e

Strategies for converting from Ant

2010-09-23 Thread David Karr
I work on a pretty large project that uses Ant for builds. We're doing some research on converting to Maven. I'd like to describe some of the elements of our situation, hopefully to find some conceptual "cookbook" strategies for those aspects. The "application" consists of the aggregation of seve