Hi Matt! A big +1 from me. I've been discussing this w/ John, Jason, et al. A push towards simplifying/shortening the XML would be a big help. Cheers, -- Chris
On 12/15/05, John Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, an even better thing to do would be to participate in the > design for 2.1. The page for some of this discussion is at: > > http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=32108 > > Cheers, > > John > > Allan Ramirez wrote: > > Please file a jira issue for this http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG > > > > -allan > > > > Matt Raible wrote: > > > >> After seeing what the Spring Developers have done to simplify Spring > >> context files, I can't help but think the same thing is possible for > >> Maven 2's pom.xml. Is it possible to add namespaces and make > >> something like the following possible? > >> > >> Before: > >> > >> <dependency> > >> <groupId>springframework</groupId> > >> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> > >> <version>1.2.6</version> > >> </dependency> > >> > >> After: > >> > >> <dep:artifact name="org/springframework/spring" version="1.2.6"/> > >> > >> Or just allow attributes to make things a bit cleaner? > >> > >> <dependency groupId="org.springframework" artifactId="spring" > >> version="1.2.6"/> > >> > >> Allowing 1 line instead of 5-6 lines per dependency would allow me to > >> cut my dependencies listing from 140 lines of XML to 37 lines. When > >> the Spring guys allows a couple of elements as attributes (<ref> and > >> <value>) - it made writing Spring context files *much* easier. > >> > >> Here's an example of my simplified version: > >> > >> <dependencies> > >> <dependency groupId="cargo" artifactId="cargo" version="0.6" > >> scope="test"/> > >> <dependency groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang" > >> version="2.0"/> > >> <dependency groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging" > >> version="1.0.4"/> > >> <dependency groupId="displaytag" artifactId="displaytag" > >> version="1.0" scope="runtime"> > >> <exclusions> > >> <exclusion artifactId="xalan" groupId="xalan"/> > >> </exclusions> > >> </dependency> > >> <dependency groupId="uk.ltd.getahead" artifactId="dwr" > >> version="1.0" scope="runtime"/> > >> <dependency groupId="org.hibernate" artifactId="hibernate" > >> version="3.0.5"> > >> <exclusions> > >> <exclusion artifactId="jta" groupId="javax.transaction"/> > >> </exclusions> > >> </dependency> > >> <dependency groupId="geronimo-spec" artifactId="geronimo-spec-jta" > >> version="1.0.1B-rc4"/> > >> <dependency groupId="jmock" artifactId="jmock" version="1.0.1" > >> scope="test"/> > >> <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="3.8.1" > >> scope="test"/> > >> <dependency groupId="jwebunit" artifactId="jwebunit" version="1.2" > >> scope="test"/> > >> <dependency groupId="httpunit" artifactId="httpunit" version="1.6" > >> scope="test"> > >> <exclusions> > >> <exclusion artifactId="js" groupId="rhino"/> > >> </exclusions> > >> </dependency> > >> <dependency groupId="log4j" artifactId="log4j" version="1.2.11"/> > >> <dependency groupId="postgresql" artifactId="postgresql" > >> version="8.1-404.jdbc3"/> > >> <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="servlet-api" > >> version="2.4" scope="provided"/> > >> <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="jstl" > >> version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/> > >> <dependency groupId="taglibs" artifactId="standard" > >> version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/> > >> <dependency groupId="opensymphony" artifactId="sitemesh" > >> version="2.2.1" scope="runtime"/> > >> <dependency groupId="springmodules" > >> artifactId="springmodules-validator" version="0.1" scope="runtime"/> > >> <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring" > >> version="1.2.6"/> > >> <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring-mock" > >> version="1.2.6" scope="test"> > >> <exclusions> > >> <exclusion artifactId="spring-jdbc" groupId="springframework"/> > >> <exclusion artifactId="spring-web" groupId="springframework"/> > >> </exclusions> > >> </dependency> > >> </dependencies> > >> > >> Of course, Ivy's syntax is even simpler, so maybe that'll provide some > >> motivation. ;-) > >> > >> <dependencies> > >> <dependency org="apache" name="commons-lang" rev="2.0" /> > >> <dependency org="apache" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" /> > >> </dependencies> > >> > >> Matt > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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] > >
