Re: [Zookeeper-user] Moving to maven

[Alan D. C. <li...@to...>]

Check out these two great resources:

Better builds with Maven
http://www.devzuz.com/web/guest/products/resources

  and

Maven: the definitive guide
http://www.sonatype.com/book/index.html

Ant and Maven can coexist in that Maven can execute Ant tasks.   
Usually, one finds that Maven can cover everything and it's rare that  
one needs to invoke Ant.  When this happens it's usually an Ant task  
that hasn't been converted to a Maven plugin.  In those cases those  
are exotic Ant tasks.


Regards,
Alan

On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Andrew Kornev wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> I'm not familiar with Maven (and it is my current priority to  
> educate myself
> in that regard). Can ant and maven coexist? Or does the use of one  
> preclude
> the use of another?
>
> As open as I am to any cool build management system, I'd really  
> love to be
> able to use ant now and then.
>
> Thanks
> Andrew
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zoo...@li...  
>> [mailto:zookeeper-user-
>> bo...@li...] On Behalf Of Alan D. Cabrera
>> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:45 AM
>> To: zoo...@li...
>> Subject: [Zookeeper-user] Moving to maven
>>
>> I'd like to suggest moving to Maven.  It has a number of advantages
>> over Ant.  Some of my favorites:
>>
>> - easier for external projects to use ZooKeeper (via maven  
>> repositories)
>> - no need to checkin jars into the SVN repository
>> - easy plugins to build IntelliJ and Eclipse projects
>> - easy plugins to build OSGi bundles
>> - future plugins to deploy OSGi bundles to OBRs
>>
>> Maven relies on "convention over configuration".  This means  that
>> ZooKeeper will be organized along the same lines as most other Open
>> Source projects.  This makes it easier for other communities to
>> understand how the ZooKeeper project is constructed.  To be sure Ant
>> has wide appeal but I have to say, from my experience with Geronimo,
>> that you would be surprised at all the different ways Ant build
>> projects can be built.
>>
>> I am happy to convert this project to use Maven.  It will require
>> some significant restructuring.  I recommend that I do the work in a
>> sandbox for the team to review.  Using patches might prove to be
>> error prone in this particular case.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alan
>>
>>
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