In case of a big projects which contains a lot of dependencies (third
party jars etc), then one needs to install all the dependecnies to local
repo, to me it works in following steps :
- Finding / noting down the dependencies for each
project / sub-project / feature.
- locating corresponding dependencies in the filesystem.
- installing the same into local repo manually.
- .. And finally make a reference of each of them in
pom.
I do not know, if to date a better way is available to handle all this ?
Regards,
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Vissers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:07 AM
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: [POLL] Why switch to Maven?
I'm reading a lot of "we need about x weeks to convert to maven", "the
learning curve is steep", "it is messy but it works", "if it cannot be
done we can use ant"...
More and more I'm getting the feeling that ANT still isn't such a bad
idea for building software. You can do a lot of the convention over
configuration stuff for your own projects with ant and things like
macrodef, subant and antlib. For dependency management we're currently
using Ivy - which is pretty descent. What's more the reporting just
works, even aggregated
(pmd,jdepend,junit,checkstyle,cobertura,javadoc,changelog,javacnss).
Can somebody tell me what the main reason would be for changing from ANT
to Maven?
I'm starting to get serious doubts.
Eric Redmond wrote:
> Hi all Maven users!
>
> I'm beginning a study to outline the real reasons that people have for
> avoiding Maven. My questions to you all are: What were your anxieties
> about using Maven? If you use Maven: what helped you make the
> decision? If you don't: why did you avoid it?
>
> Here are some that I have heard in the past:
>
> * Lack of good documentation.
> * Community unwilling to help me with my problems.
> * Not "industry supported" or "mainstream" enough.
> * I don't like conforming to the Maven project layout.
> * My project is too complex to switch.
> * There are not enough plugins available.
> * We already have a large investement in tool X.
> * I have to build native/non-Java code.
>
> Any more reasons? Care to expand these ideas?
> Thanks for your help!
> ____
> Eric Redmond
> http://codehaus.org/~eredmond
>
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