Do make your first Maven project a conversion. You will likely fail or
be extremely unhappy. I have seen this a hundred times now and trying
to wedge Maven into what you currently have is categorically not a
good idea.
Find a new, preferably small, project where you can try out Maven and
understand fully what it does before you attempt to convert a project.
On 23-Feb-09, at 4:53 PM, Steve Cohen wrote:
OK, after extensive discussion in earlier thread about the best way
to go about Mavenizing Existing Project(s) in my, shall we say,
unusual environment (see that thread for details, don't want to
recapitulate them here) I have decided to try to move forward.
First I have to learn this tool. I have used maven before, but
mainly in the way of building from someone else's POM. Just type
maven install or some such and bingo, the world is built.
Now my goal is to have pre-existing non-Maven projects be
mavenized. I am prepared to "throw the first one away". I also
want to take this opportunity to start from a m2eclipse platform, so
I have now installed that, even to the point of installing Ganymede
because I couldn't get it to install in Europa. Although I know
there is benefit to the command line tools, I'd like to start from
eclipse, understanding that I can take the POM I produce and install
it with command line tools.
So my first question is this:
How do I convert a non-Maven project into a Maven project?
1) Is there some way to "change natures"?
2) Create a new Maven project, place in SVN, then move stuff to the
right places?
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Jason
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