True, true. That is another option. Maybe theres others. I can imagine generating other OS specific package installers too. (RPM, bin, XPI, sh, InstallSheild, msi ...). A plugin or series of plugins devoted to building such installers using maven and its repository resources.
-Mark
There are several such plugins on the maven-plguins.sf.net site:
* http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-runtime-builder-plugin * http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-deb-plugin * http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven-rpm-plugin
The runtime plugin builds a runtime consisting of a lib catalog witha all dependencies and .bat and .sh shell wrappers.
-- Trygvis
Ethan Rider wrote:
Pardon my interjection, but if the problem domain is restricted to java files, wouldn't JNLP be the technology to leverage here?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:24 pm Subject: Re: new idea on maven usage?
Novel Idea,
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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