Well, set up a repository manager for your project then. Setting up Nexus shouldn't take more than half a day and it doesn't require a super computer. Then deploy the artifacts there. As stated in many threads by many people, if you fight Maven you'll just be sorry and likely you'd be better off staying with your old build tool. On the other hand, if you just put a little extra effort into doing things the Maven way you'll be greatly rewarded. :-)
/Anders On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 09:21, Vijay Venkataraman < vijay.venkatara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Anders > > You are right. Unfortunately all the product builds are ant builds and > there > is no central repository concept which holds the artifacts in the way that > is prescribed by maven. Again i cannot change all those pieces one shot. I > want to try this out on one project and then slowly work on moving other > pieces one by one. > > Thanks, > Vijay > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > > > Any reason why you're trying to build your own solution instead of going > > the > > Maven way by setting up a corporate repository populated with these > > artifacts? Not only would it be the right solution, my guess is that it > > would be so much easier than going against Maven. > > > > /Anders > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 07:06, Vijay Venkataraman < > > vijay.venkatara...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Currently i am trying to get maven project setup which creates a jar > > > artifact. I have setup the project structure. > > > Unfortunately i we don't have the libraries in central repository as > per > > > maven layout and jars don't have version numbers. > > > They are jars like product1.jar, product2.jar. These jars are the > project > > > dependencies. > > > I was thinking of running ant task which will move the jars to > necessary > > > location and rename the jars during validate phase. After which i > expect > > > the > > > compile to execute. > > > > > > But i see that dependency resolution happens first before any tasks can > > be > > > executed. Is it that i should write a separate ant script to do this > > before > > > running maven. > > > I am using maven 2.1.0. > > > > > > Is there a better way to accomplish this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Vijay > > > > > >
