Hi Malte,
> Btw, tried to have a look at the namespace declaration at
> http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0- this URL is specified in basically
> any <project xmlns=...> of any POM I have seen thus far. Turns out
> that page does not exist. What's up with that?
Funny thing about XML namespaces... they don't actually have to point to a
valid URL. They are merely global identifiers, which by convention often
happen to point to a valid URL.
See:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_namespaces.asp
>From that page: "Note: The namespace URI is not used by the parser to look
up information. The purpose is to give the namespace a unique name.
However, often companies use the namespace as a pointer to a web page
containing namespace information."
Notice that that same unique identifier is used as the first of a pair of
space-separated values within the xsi:schemaLocation.
Of course, one could nonetheless argue it is a bit odd to use an invalid
URL as the global identifier. But I think the rationale is probably that
using a namespace matching a domain one controls makes it highly unlikely
to ever clash with anything else. It's a similar rationale to why Java
package prefixes are inverse domain names by convention.
Regards,
Curtis
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Malte Skoruppa <skoru...@cs.uni-saarland.de
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I thought the version is defined in
>> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=blob;
>> f=maven-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/default-bindings.xml;h=
>> 09ecba441e61d4a997b01af0171815c558548537;hb=maven-3.0.4
>> (replace hb with the version of your choice :-)).
>>
>>
> Hmm, I guess you're thinking of Maven 3.1 or something. In Maven 3.0.4
> there does not seem to exist a maven-core/src/main/resources/
> META-INF/plexus/default-bindings.xml
> (the fact that your URL does work although the file does not exist in that
> particular revision is presumably some git peculiarity)
> See here:
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git;a=tree;
> f=maven-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus;hb=maven-3.0.4
> (or just click the "plexus" link to go up one level in the git path at the
> URL you posted)
> Yet the same things are apparently defined in artifact-handlers.xml for
> Maven 3.0.4 (so my guess in my previous mail was presumably correct).
> Anyway, the precise xml file where the default plugin version is defined
> does not matter that much.
>
> What's interesting to note though, is that more things are going on behind
> the scenes than just what one sees from the uber-pom.
> So it's not as simple as I had expected. The default plugin version is
> defined in one place (somewhere in maven-core, and that place is not the
> uber-pom). The default Java source and target versions are defined
> somewhere else entirely, in the implementation of the
> maven-compiler-plugin. Makes sense, I guess.
>
>
> actually what is the case is that these parameters have an annotation like
>>
>> @Parameter(property="maven.compiler.source",defaultValue="1.5")
>> private String source;
>>
>> So what happens is that if you don't specify a value in the
>> <configuration>
>> section then Maven checks to see if the property is defined, if not then
>> it
>> uses the default value
>>
>> Once you specify a value in the <configuration> section that is taken as
>> gold.
>>
>> So if I get this correctly what happens is:
> 1. Maven looks if you have a <configuration> section for
> maven-compiler-plugin in your POM
> 2. If not then it looks if the property maven.compiler.source is defined
> somewhere (via POM or -Dmaven.compiler.source or whatever)
> 3. If that fails, it will take the default property defined in the
> annotation on the source string in AbstractCompilerMojo.java of the
> maven-compiler-plugin that you mentioned.
>
> I'm getting there. This level of detail I can live with :-D
>
> the only pity with using properties is that they are not namespaced most
>> of
>> the time (the maven.compiler.* ones being an exception here), "output" is
>> claimed at least by three mojos IIRC.
>>
>
> I would think that it's a nice feature to be able to declare arbitrary
> property name/value pairs in the POM, as they can be used to avoid
> redundancy in the POMs, for filters etc.
> But then, they are inherently not namespaced. What's the problem with
> that? (May again be a total noob question :-)
>
> Btw, tried to have a look at the namespace declaration at
> http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0- this URL is specified in basically any
> <project xmlns=...> of any POM I have seen thus far. Turns out that page
> does not exist. What's up with that?
>
>
> I would have liked conventions like always "prefix with plugin name".
>>
>>
> Agreed, that would be really nice in order to avoid clashes as with for
> example the "output" property that you mentioned and which is claimed by at
> least three mojos or so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malte
>
>
>
>
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