Re: [Xmlunit-general] xmlunit.org

[Eric S. <pub...@da...>]

[I've pasted back in a few lines from Harald's post that Stefan snipped]

On 12/26/2014 06:12 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
 > On 2014-12-24, Harald Brabenetz wrote:
 > > The advances would be the following
 > >   - Modern IDEs can read the pom.xml and configure the Projects 
automatically (no manual selection where the source folders or the 
libraries are).
 > >   - You doesn't need to check-in libraries like hamcrest or junit
 > >   - It's much easier to deploy to the maven central repo (with the 
maven-release-plugin and some configurations for the Sonatype's OSSRH)
 >
 > I guess what I'm asking is: can I be sure there will be a result that
 > goes beyond replacing a build system I like with one I don't like :-)

Instead of switching completely over to Maven, why not use a
hybrid approach?  Keep Ant, but write a minimal POM for
consumption by the general public.  It could specify the external
dependencies, but delegate to Ant and build.xml for the actual
build. [1]

That way, you (i.e. Stefan) get the first of the advantages that
are claimed for Maven -- and the second one too, if you want it,
with a bit of finagling.
But:
   - you can keep using the build system you prefer
   - you don't have to completely reorganize your project
     structure
   - you don't have to wrestle with the release plugin

[1] For calling out to Ant, one option is:
     http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/

Eric