John,
Thanks that helps tremendously, my other 2 remaining questions would be
1) within the <ant:classpath> I need to somehow iterate through the list of
project dependencies, something like:
<ant:classpath>
<while mydeps.hasmore>
<ant:classpath path=mydep>
</while>
</ant:classpath>
Is there someway to do something similar to this?
2) Secondly if the user specifies multiple classpath entries, like
maven -DadditionalClasspath="/path/to/something.jar;/path/to/anotherjar.jar"
is there someway for me to break that up into classpath entries?
3) and i lied one more question, to access VM variables do I simply do
{variableName} from maven.xml?
Thanks,
David
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From: "John Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: A Goal that can execute a class' main method?
> You might want to try Ant's <java> task for this. To use it, you should
> try embedding in a custom goal within your project's maven.xml file.
> I'll look something like this:
>
> <project default="dbLoad" xmlns:ant="jelly:ant">
>
> <goal name="dbLoad">
> <ant:java [...options...] classname="com.myco.DbLoader">
> <ant:arg value="${myData}"/>
>
> <ant:classpath>
> <ant:pathelement path="${myPath}"/>
> </ant:classpath>
> </ant:java>
> </goal>
>
> </project>
>
> which you might then invoke using the following command:
>
> maven -DmyData=/path/to/my/data -DmyPath=/path/to/my/classes dbLoad
>
> You can find more info on the Ant java task at:
> http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/java.html
>
> HTH,
> john
>
> David Erickson wrote:
> > Hi guys got a couple questions. Ive got a project that has a class that
> > updates a database with information. What I was wondering is if it
would be
> > possible to make a maven goal that executes that class, thus making it
easy
> > on the end user (since the majority of the dependencies are listed
within
> > the dep list). The requirements are these:
> > 1) I'd need to be able to pass in a java environment variable (from the
> > command line) for where the datafiles are at to be ported into the db
> > 2) I'd need to be able to add elements to the classpath of the class
that
> > will be executed (From the command line) in addition to the dependencies
> > that are listed within maven
> >
> > Is something like this possible? And if so, if you could point me in
the
> > direction on how to implement it I'd be greatly appreciative.
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
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