Hi there, I think I have a new idea on how to use maven, not just as a build system.
anyway, what I thought of is the following.
I want to use some sort of minimalistic version of maven to start my applications, this way I do not have to distribute any of my jar files, or any of the external jar files, and I can also get a version controled handling of the execution.
what would be needed to use this.
project.xml
remove all the build stuff
add information on which class to run and if it should be
"threaded"maven
includes no plugins and only 2 goals
start to start the applikation (if the application is threaded
maven will exist after "start" but the application still
running)
stop to stop the application (if it was started threaded)If I have maven-starter locally installed all I would need was to download the project.xml file and type maven start this would then download everything that was needed (if not previously downloaded) and start the applikation.
In a sence it is sort of a webstart system, but the jar files does not have to be on the same server, nor signed, etc...
we could ofcourse demand some security in this so that jar files hae to be signed, etc and that users have to agree to the signature (much like webstart)
but I think this could be better then webstart, since this could also work with server applications...
anyway it is just an idea!
/Christian
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