I think Ant might be a lighter starting point. In fact you could do something like the ant-plugin to generate an ant "build.xml" that starts the whole process.
If the user has ant installed, they can just run your script, otherwise, you could package it with just enough of the ant classes that it would be light and simple to execute from within a jar file.
%jar foo-start.jar
-Mark
Christian Andersson wrote:
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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