[hibernate-dev] Re: maven migration

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>