Re: [JBoss-dev] Maven...

[Luke T. <ne...@fr...>]

Jason Dillon wrote:
> Played a tad with Maven 0.9 & I am still very impressed with the module 
> documentation which is produces from the 'site' goal.  Still looks like 
> it has some issues, but then again everything has issues.  I am gonna 
> see how easy/difficult it will be to get Maven running to build the core 
> of JBoss and I will let y'all know.
> 

Jason,

I was looking into Mavenising the JBoss build not so long ago and had 
some success working my way through the JBoss modules and building them 
as sub projects using Maven's "reactor". It seemed like it would be a 
useful exercise in both finding out more about using Maven for more 
complex stuff and re-familiarising myself with what was what in the 
JBoss codebase these days. I had some problems with using the XDoclet 
JMX stuff and the Maven plugin - the basic mbeaninterface stuff worked 
OKbut I couldn't get the jboss-specific stuff to work (e.g. the 
jbossxmbean subtasks). I still haven't worked out where the problem lay 
- could easily be a bug because probably not many people are using this 
from within Maven. I'm not familiar with the current status of the 
xdoclet jars which are used withing the JBoss build either (I guess 
David can clear that up). In any case it could probably be done with 
straight ant tasks until the problem was resolved.

I think it should be feasible to put together a Maven build using the 
existing JBoss structure and run it in parallel for some time. This 
would act as a proof of concept and allow time to iron out any problems, 
standardise things and make improvements before any decision was made 
about switching over.

With the current interest I'll have a look at it again and see what I 
can come up with. Let me know if you want to compare notes.

Luke.

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