Habib Ragelhassi wrote:
We are about to migrate to Maven. Our source code(million of line of source) is monolithic and does not fit at all Maven conventions and is not modular at all. 1-I wounder wether any standard migration strategy to speed-up the component driven approch in order to mavenize such huge amount of source code? Do you know such adventure in the software industry?
Having completed a year long exercise in this, combining jars, ears, wars, and Eclipse plugins, the basic advice is small steps, slowly.
The payoff is huge - we are capable of cutting a release and deploying it in under 30 minutes, while other projects schedule deployments that take whole weekends.
Personally, I know that Spring framework was migrated by using a gradual approach( no source move, just "empty" maven modules with just pom.xml files). But Spring is not that big in term of source code.
That's the approach, the size of the source code doesn't really matter.Resign yourself that it will take a while, and constantly reevaluate your progress as you move through your code.
Regards, Graham --
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