> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Husby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:01 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: Re: The Genapp plugin
>
>
> Charles Daniels wrote:
>
> >Works like a charm for my templates.
> >
> >-- Chuck
> >
> >
> How do you make your templates available to the rest of your company? Do
> you provide a script that wraps "maven genapp" with appropriate
> parameters?
Good question. This is something I have been wrestling with recently
myself. I have created a plugin specifically to aid in building
applications using my company's software. Part of what the plugin provides
is a template for starting a new project. One thing I had considered was
creating an alternative genapp goal as part of the plugin with a name of the
form prefix:genapp, which would use the genapp tag supplying the location of
my template repository within my plugin.
However, I opted not to create an alternative goal just to pickup my custom
template. I want to be able to use the standard genapp goal. After digging
through the genapp plugin.jelly file, I noticed that it will check for
templates in the ${user.home}/.maven/template directory, if you specify a
template that it does not have in its own plugin resources. I decided to
populate that directory with my custom template files. In order to do this
without requiring developers to do any work (other than install my plugin),
I decided to create a genapp preGoal in my plugin. The preGoal simply
copies my template files to the ${user.home}/.maven/template directory so
that genapp can find my template.
The only thing I have to do now is check the files in that directory against
the files in my plugin so that I only update the template directory if the
plugin contains newer files. Here's the preGoal in my plugin:
<preGoal name="genapp">
<!-- TODO: Delete/copy only when necessary -->
<ant:delete dir="${user.home}/.maven/template/mytemplate"/>
<ant:copy todir="${user.home}/.maven/template/mytemplate"
preservelastmodified="true">
<ant:fileset dir="${plugin.resources}/genapp/mytemplate"/>
</ant:copy>
</preGoal>
I first delete my template directory in case a new release of my plugin has
eliminated or moved any template files.
I hope that helps.
-- Chuck
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