"Let the Wookie win." On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > If you don't do things the Maven way, you will be in a battle until Maven > defeats you. > You might as well give in early, you have no chance of wining. > Maven is relentless and determined to bend you to its will. > > Ron > > On 19/05/2011 10:28 AM, Thiessen, Todd (Todd) wrote: >> >> Your scenario is not uncommon. I have seems many teams go through it. >> >> The advice I always give is to NOT give in to the temptation to try and >> keep your existing structure when you move to maven. Your build will be a >> large mess. >> >> Converting to maven means more than simply adopting a folder convention. >> It is also about a build philosophy. For example, Maven strongly encourages >> one artifact per project. You will run into this when converting your build >> to use maven. If you deviate from using the default folder conventions, in >> my experience, only leads to greater confusion and more time to get the >> conversion done. >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: uday shankar [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:15 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Maven folder structure >>> >>> Hi Karl, >>> I understand that you are asking me to stick to the default folder >>> structure >>> created by maven. >>> This(sticking to the default folder structure) works fine when we are >>> using >>> maven right from the beginning of the project.But what if say, >>> Scenario 1: we have started the project in eclipse, and in the middle >>> of the >>> development process I want to use maven. And maven commands seem to be >>> using >>> the default folder structure. How can we use maven with a different >>> folder >>> structure(because a simple web application created using maven commands >>> have >>> different structure when compared to a web application created in >>> eclipse)?? >>> >>> Scenario 2: If say initially we were using Ant as the building tool for >>> a >>> project. Now we want to use Maven as the tool , how do we implement >>> that? >>> What is the process of migration from ant to maven? >>> >>> If there is ambiguity anywhere, I will try explaining again. >>> Thanks, >>> Uday >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Maven- >>> folder-structure-tp4409276p4409835.html >>> Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
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