May 2007 - hibernate-dev - Jboss List Archives

by Steve Ebersole

Did not realize repositories for plugins are specified separately from "regular" repositories. So duplicate the JBoss info given below as a pluginRepository as well... On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:46 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote: > Ok, I am relatively happy with my PoC of Maven at this point in time. > So the time has come to migrate. Starting tomorrow (Friday 5/25) I will > begin migrating trunk to use the maven stuff I have been working on. > > The directory structure is quite different, as it is taking advantage of > Maven modules. Thus the resulting jars are also different from what > they used to be; we used to just produce hibernate3.jar, but will now > have more "modular" jars. Essentially any "optional" services were > isolated into separate modules to simplify management of transitive > dependencies. The only glaring one missing from that modularization > right now is the bytecode providers, which require some major code > changes (planned anyway) before I can do that. > > As an FYI, I had Max verify loading the project into Eclipse after using > the maven-eclipse-plugin to generate the Eclipse project files; he said > it was fine. For the IntelliJ users, well your out of luck sorta. I > use IntelliJ and the maven-idea-plugin works far less than ideal. > However, be aware that IntelliJ7 (already in EAP) has the ability to > directly open Maven project descriptors as if they were IntelliJ > projects. So that'll be awesome. Netbeans users, dunno; sorry. > > Part of that PoC was developing some custom plugins for stuff like > DocBook. Actually, I'll be sending out another email in a few days > regarding DocBook stuff in general. Those, too, will be pushed not sure > where exactly yet on a permenant basis but to the JBoss Maven repo for > Maven access (its details are below). The DocBook one is interesting to > note for those using DocBook for documentation. Essentially it is > broken down into a number of projects: > 1) net.sf.docbook:docbook - this is a simple repackaging of the actual > DocBook distro, packaging up (1) its standard XSLTs and (2) its extended > SAXON support. I decided to not package up its extended XALAN support > since I have never been successful utilizing XALAN for DocBook anyway. > This projects versioning scheme it to mirror the source DocBook distro > which it repackages (currently repackaged only 1.70.1). > 2) org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jboss-docbook-plugin:0.1 - This is the > actual maven plugin to run the DocBook transformations. Over the next > few days I'll be further enhancing this to also define (a) a custom > packaging and (b) archetype(s) > 3) org.hibernate:hibernate-docbook-xslt:0.1 - defines the Hibernate > custom DocBook stylesheets (the maven-jboss-docbook-plugin understands > how to resolve stylesheets via classpath resource lookups presumably > against dependencies like this). > > Anyway, that's about it for now. For those that have not already seen > it, and want to take a sneak peek, the temporary work has been happening > here: http://fisheye.jboss.com/viewrep/Hibernate/trunk/sandbox/maven-poc > > So if anyone has pending check-ins, you may wanna get to it now. And > try to resist check-ins tomorrow until I send an all-clear. > > Thanks, > Steve > > P.S. The JBoss repo details (I just put this in my settings.xml): > > <repository> > <id>jboss</id> > <url>http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/</url> > <releases> > <enabled>true</enabled> > </releases> > <snapshots> > <enabled>true</enabled> > </snapshots> > </repository>

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