I still just finding my way in OfBiz (I like what I find!), but I am very involved with another open source ERP project (adempiere) and we have had some calls there to go the maven route too. I'm not sure if it's a bit of a band wagon yet but one blog I did find interesting (because it seemed like a real world evaluation) was http://weblogs.java.net/blog/zarar/archive/2006/12/the_pain_of_mig_1.html
But people who use maven do (mostly) sing it praise okay but I cannot help thinking it's a bit like the scaffolding in the likes of grails - it great when you are starting from scratch--to enforce some structure and get you up to speed quick-- but it might some become limiting if you need to do something non-standard. Any way I have no experience... just thought I'd share the link. Personally it seems to me that since all the ant scripts are there, to just about anything needed in the project, there is little to be gained. Colin Shi Jinghai wrote: > Many people here can understand your feeling and have the same feeling. > Obviously maven is better when you're crazy for so many projects and > deployment to maintain. > > We'll try to do something in this area as we are mavening our source > code now. We'll setup maven2.langhua.org to play the role of OFBiz > maven2 repository. > > What is the main problem now is OFBiz is not version released, it's > difficult to decide which trunk version should be put into repository. > > Anyway, we'll set it up in 2009. Hope it's not too late for you :). > > Regards, > > Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd. > > > 在 2009-03-14六的 07:42 +0530，Ambient Solution写道： > >> Hi, >> >> >> I worked on offbiz for four year previously and again I started as some of >> my associated recomend to research on it. >> >> I am not sure whether I am asking reight quesiton here or not. >> >> Previously when I was working on offbiz to setup workspace in eclipse , its >> a hattick job , Setting classpath is a manual process in eclipse while for >> build we use ant build. >> >> Same functionality is provided by Maven which support boath IDE and duild >> creation . Is some one already worked on ant to Maven Migration. >> >> The benifit I seen in MVN you can set dependecy which is required for >> perticular project or JAR level not you have set a full folder. >> Second benift I found that once you setup your repository on server which is >> not a part of your project , It will save space on version server , Cos >> every new branch or project dosent require to copy all jar. >> >> This process also reduce traffic on n/w at build time , Cos that time >> you dont have to download jar again , MVN download only new or updated jar . >> >> If is there any one who worked on the same thing , Please help me. >> >> Regards, >> Sumit >> Solution Architect >> +91-9221182885 >> > > > -- With Kind Regards, Colin Rooney ________________________ mobile: +353 86 046 5976 skype: colin.rooney web: www.openbiz.ie
