On 11/27/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The field metadata when creating plugins is read from source files, so
> is not available when the original source is not. The metadata is
> available in the plugin in {{META-INF/maven/plugin.xml}}, but at this
> point there is no way to incorporate it when building a new plugin.
>
> We currently recommend building your plugins using composition instead
> of inheritence.
>thanks brett. by composition you mean coding from scratch? currently i am doing that but i was hoping to re-use some of the code in the plugins. as it is i am going to use ant classes for directory scanning and processing because most of the classes used in the code do not have javadocs (and they seem to have low priority) to guide new users. that is one issue that i have beef with but we have other alternatives so we might as well leverage on that. ciao! > > Cheers, > Brett > > On 11/25/05, Anuerin Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > i am planning to develop a plugin similar to the assembly:directory > > goal so i am looking at extending the AbstractAssemblyMojo to re-use > > some of its properties and code. the configuration is similar to that > > of the assemblies but we would like to rewrite and add some more > > project features. my problem is that the properties in the parent > > class is not being initialized properly in our custom classes. as an > > example the descriptor variable is always set to null, but the > > configuration properties that we added are initialized properly. > > > > anybody have a clue what we missed? i am looking at the > > DirectoryMojo source code and it is implemented the same way. thanks. > > > > ciao! > > > > -- > > > > "Programming, an artform that fights back" > > > > Anuerin G. Diaz > > Registered Linux User #246176 > > Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php > > http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else > > better to do > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
