+1 for the maven shade plugin
I have used it quite extensively in ext-scripting works really well.
You just can bundle the classes or do a full namespace refactoring with
it on binary level.
Am 26.07.10 20:56, schrieb Jakob Korherr:
Hi guys,
Working on the tests for FlashImpl, I ran into a problem with the
AbstractAttributeMap (MYFACES-2840). After fixing it, I needed to copy
my changes over to myfaces-test to be able to use the new version in the
test case (MYFACESTEST-21). And this copying really sucks...
If you think about it there are many, many, many different places in the
whole MyFaces project where we have duplicate code, for example
package-private, unspecified classes on myfaces-api which also exist in
myfaces-impl, classes of myfaces-impl which are used for the mock
implementations of myfaces-test, or the biggest one: the shared project.
An introduction to the maven-shade-plugin: This plugin lets you use a
dependency to another project and then at build time it copies all
needed classes to the created jar file, removes the dependency from the
pom.xml and changes the imports in the class files. Thus you work with
the real classes at development time and then at build time the used
classes are copied into the artifact and the development dependency is
gone. Furthermore you can make all kinds of alterations to those classes
(e.g. change package).
We successfully use the maven-shade-plugin in MyFaces CODI to reuse
functionaltiy between the JSF 1.2 and 2.0 modules. In addition, I have
locally already used it to fix MYFACESTEST-21: I use it to get the
AbstractAttributeMap and all its related classes from myfaces-impl to
myfaces-test. And it really works like a calm.
However I have to be honest, one thing currently has a bug: filters are
only applied to the binary and not also to the sources jar (see
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSHADE-83), but I already provided a
patch and a test case for it, so I guess it will be fixed very soon.
So if there are no objects, I would like to introduce the
maven-shade-plugin on myfaces-test at first, to show you guys how
awesome it is. Afterwards, and of course if you all like it, I would
really like to use it on several places in MyFaces. This would for
example be the chance to get rid of the shared project once and for all.
Opinions, suggestions and tomatoes are welcome!
Regards,
Jakob
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