[Springframework-developer] Maven Files Uploaded...

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

Hi all,

I've committed the Maven project and properties files and also some 
example xdocs to illustrate how the site structure might pan out. An 
example of the output can be viewed at

http://www.monkeymachine.ltd.uk/spring/index.html

The "project reports" section is of particular interest.

If you want to try it out there are a few steps (plus some others which 
I'll probably forget :).

The first thing is to download maven 1.0-beta-9 from maven.apache.org 
and install it. This should be straightforward. I think you'll also have 
to set up MAVEN_HOME to point to the directory you unpack it to.

One of the main features of Maven is its ability to handle dependencies 
on third-party libraries across your projects. The dependencies are 
specified in the project.xml file (have a look to see how it's done). 
Maven will automatically download these as required from an online 
repository (at http://www.ibiblio.org/maven) and maintain a local 
repository. So the idea is that you don't have to store jar files in cvs 
anymore. Unfortunately due to licensing issues with Sun, a lot of key 
jar files can't be provided by the online repository. Others may be 
missing because they aren't well known projects or just because nobody's 
asked yet. The solution is to insert these into the local repository 
yourself.

For each unsatisfied dependency, create your own directory in 
MAVEN_HOME/repository and copy the jar file(s) there. e.g. for the ejb 
classes the project.xml entry is

<dependency>
   <id>ejb</id>
   <version>2.0</version>
   <jar>ejb.jar</jar>
</dependency>

So you create directory MAVEN_HOME/repository/ejb/jar and copy ejb.jar 
into it.

Repeat this for jta, jms, javamail, aopalliance and attrib4j entries. 
The rest should be handled automatically. I've specified the jdk1.4 
version of mockobjects 'cos that's what I'm building with so that may 
cause problems if you're using 1.3.

Once that's done, there are a few things you can try. All output goes to 
the "target" directory.

maven -Dmaven.test.skip=true dist

will build a set of distribution files (binary and src, tar.gz and zip) 
in the distribution directory.

maven site

will generate the documentation and web site in "docs". This should look 
like the one at the above URL.

If you have any problems post them here. Use "maven --debug" if 
something's going drastically wrong.

Have fun,

Luke.


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