On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 23:17, Ben Walding wrote:
> Try taking a look at Vincent's blog:
> 
> Item 3 at
> http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/OtherMavenArticles

Thanks Ben. I've been looking at Vincents slides and other articles on
how to do it. I've no real problem in adopting the Maven 'standard' of
sub-projects for JAR, WAR, EAR - it makes a lot of sense.

Having adopted this standard, the problem areas are how to 
a). build projects with sub-projects etc.
b). generate suitable documentation for the overall project.

On the first issue, with Ant you can obviously do hierarchies of
projects, yet with Maven I've seen no reference to a similar facility. I
can clearly go into each sub-project and build that part (or even write
preGoal and postGoal for each sub-project to build other bits maybe),
but what about streamlining the whole thing ? Maybe if there was a space
in the project.xml to identify the locations of sub-projects, and so if
I typed 'maven build' or 'maven install' at the top level it would go
through the sub-projects and build/install them. Maven is early in its
lifecycle and so I can see why this maybe isn't there yet.

On the second issue, it would be nice to have the overall project docs
show the fact that there are sub-projects and have (in the navigation
bar) sections for each sub-project (Javadocs, checkstyle, etc). That way
the docs for the whole project would be integrated. 

Make sense ?



-- 
Andy

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