On 26 August 2011 07:02, Brian Topping <topp...@codehaus.org> wrote: > A lot of people use antrun, see > http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/downloads/pdf/hurricane_map_english.pdf. I > personally do that as a last resort.
What does a hurricane map have to do with Ant? :-) This is what I usually do. Using AntRun is by far the easiest and fastest way to add support for custom stuff. At the very least, it's a good way to prototype. As long as you can do it easily in Ant, of course. > I personally don't have a problem writing a plugin and adding it to my build. > Reactor figures out the build order properly and does the right thing. > Using the plugin archetype (via 'mvn archetype:generate'), you get a plugin > skeleton with no work. For me, a plugin is the last resort. Plugin writing is still seriously under documented (I could only find "Hello World!" type examples) and I keep running into things where I have to do serious research on how to do something. That usually means having to find a plugin that does something somewhat similar and then looking at the source code. Even then I have run into cases where some feature works for the plugin I'm looking at but I can't for the life of me get it to work in my plugin. That said, some of my plugin attempts have worked out quite nicely. Furthermore, I do get the impression that things have improved (a little bit) in Maven 3. But still no decent documentation or examples (that I am aware of). I would love to be proven wrong, though! :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
