Try using forward slashes (/) instead of backslashes (\) in your directory names (even on Windows). Ours are several levels deep and work fine.
- Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Vikas Phonsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 5:17 PM > To: 'Maven Users List' > Subject: RE: How to start projects with Maven > > Ok Paul, I'm reading thru all that. But take a look at this. > I used this build.properties file to run the > eclipse:external-tools goal. > > maven.eclipse.workspace=C:\wsad_workspaces\JakartaTesting > maven.eclipse.junit=3.7.0 > maven.eclipse.output.dir=C:\wsad_workspaces\JakartaTesting\New > Maven\classes > maven.eclipse.test.output.dir=C:\wsad_workspaces\JakartaTestin > g\NewMaven\tes > t > > The goal runs successfully but it creates the following file > > C:/wsad_wordspacesJakartaTesting/metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse > .ui.externalto > ols/externaltools.xml > > > > But I specified my mave.eclipse.workspace = > C:\wsad_workspaces\JakartaTesting > > Any idea what's going on. Will it not accept another level of > directory. > > Vikas > > -----Original Message----- > From: O'Fallon, Paul (MAN-Corporate) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:14 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: How to start projects with Maven > > Take some time and read through the user's guide > (http://maven.apache.org/reference/user-guide.html) It will > help give you a conceptual understanding of how things work > (the section on "Properties Processing" answers your > questions about setting properties). There is also a section > in the user's guide on "Starting a New Project". > > Once you understand the concepts it is easier to "fill in the > blanks" and use maven in your own project. > > - Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vikas Phonsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 4:48 PM > > To: 'Maven Users List' > > Subject: RE: How to start projects with Maven > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > Your email shows direction. But I very new to Maven and > just finished > > my first tutorial. Could you guide how should I proceed with this > > eclipse plug in. I couldn't find any instructions abt that on the > > website. > > > > The genapp and eclipses plugin webpages list some properties. > > Where do I set these properties. In build.properties file ?? > > Then what. > > > > I'm so lost ? I would appreciate some help on how to proceed. > > > > Thanks > > > > Vikas > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: O'Fallon, Paul (MAN-Corporate) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:24 PM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: RE: How to start projects with Maven > > > > Look at the genapp plugin > > http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/genapp/ > > > > As for IDE integration, look at the eclipse plugin > > http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/eclipse/ > > (although it took some additional effort for us to get this to work > > with > > WSAD...) > > > > HTH, > > Paul > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Vikas Phonsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:45 PM > > > To: 'Maven Users List' > > > Subject: How to start projects with Maven > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > I want to know how should the project development be > > started in order > > > to use Maven. In the tutorials and articles, maven is > used to build > > > and jar up stuff after the classes have been written. They > > wrote the > > > project.xml after they had written the classes. > > > > > > I want to use Maven my WDSC IDE so that Maven acts as an > > application > > > assembly tool which would get all the dependency jars on itself. > > > In this IDE you see a red mark if some required jar/class > > is not found > > > and then you go and update the build path. There is a file > > that stores > > > the paths of all the required jars and I intend to update > that file > > > with Maven so that those red marks are eliminated in the IDE. > > > > > > > > > So how should I start the projects. 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