Well Rob has already made a start on adding Maven. I did try building with it, but hit a snag downloading the validator jar and I've not had a chance to have another look since.
The snag is that commons-validator-1.1.0.jar is not on the default (iBiblio) repository. If you get a copy in your own maven repository, you'll be fine. (I just put in a formal request to have it uploaded, ref: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=MAVEN-879)
If you have the binary for the jar, you can just drop it in your local repository (on UNIX systems, that would normally be ~/.maven/repository/commons-logging/jars/ -- not real sure for Windows.)
In theory, you should be able to check out commons-validator from CVS and install it using "maven jar:install", but I was having problems with tests last time I tried (weeks ago). You could use "maven -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true jar:install" instead.
Once that's installed, maven java:compile works file for the current CVS repository of Struts. Yesterday I had trouble with "maven site".
I'm hoping to provide some energy to help Rob, but I'm on a deadline this week and next. I actually don't have much Maven experience on something as large as this -- Rob is forging out into the new Maven "multiproject" plugin, which I hope to learn about but haven't yet...
It's still premature to drop the Ant build, but Maven is ready for use, say if you want to use it to set up an IDE project in Eclipse, JBuilder or IDEA, and like I said, for compiling. Actually, I'd be better able to help if people started posting bugs about it... so i'd say "dive in!" It's pretty non-invasive.
Joe
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