+1 to that.
Kind regards,
Dave Sag
Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15-12-2005 02:06:04:
> 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
>
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