Author: smukhina Date: 2010-04-02 09:03:14 -0400 (Fri, 02 Apr 2010) New Revision: 21238 Added: trunk/maven/docs/maven_reference_guide/en-US/images/introduction/ Modified: trunk/maven/docs/maven_reference_guide/en-US/introduction.xml Log: JBDS-1121 Maven Integration Guide - updated Modified: trunk/maven/docs/maven_reference_guide/en-US/introduction.xml =================================================================== --- trunk/maven/docs/maven_reference_guide/en-US/introduction.xml 2010-04-02 12:26:08 UTC (rev 21237) +++ trunk/maven/docs/maven_reference_guide/en-US/introduction.xml 2010-04-02 13:03:14 UTC (rev 21238) @@ -17,18 +17,102 @@ </keywordset> </chapterinfo> + + <title>Introduction</title> - <para>Starting from 3.1 M2 version JBoss Tools includes new Jboss Maven Integration plug-in which for now allows to create mavenized Seam projects and enable Seam tools support for imported Maven projects.</para> + <section> + <title>What Maven is</title> + <para>Maven is a flexible project management, build and deployment tool from Apache Foundation. Maven uses Project Object Model to describe a project and consist from the core, plugins and repository, which can be local or remote.</para> + <figure> + <title>Maven Component structure</title> + <mediaobject> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="images/introduction/maven_component_structure.png"/> + </imageobject> + + </mediaobject> + </figure> + <para>The core basing on pom.xml controls a process of calling plugins. Plugins contain all other functionality which Maven provides for the projects: compile, build, deploy and etc. </para> + <para>Repository is a common place for all plugins which Maven globally uses. Local repository collects plugins snapshots downloaded from remote repository or from a set of repositories.</para> + </section> + <section> + <title>JBoss Maven Integration Functionality Overview</title> + <para>In the beginning, we propose you to look through the table of main features of JBoss Maven Tools Integration Tools: </para> + <table> + <title>Key Functionality for Maven Integration Tool</title> + <tgroup cols="3"> + <colspec colnum="1" align="left" colwidth="2*"/> + <colspec colnum="2" colwidth="4*"/> + <colspec colnum="3" align="left" colwidth="2*"/> + <thead> + <row> + <entry>Feature</entry> + <entry>Benefit</entry> + <entry>Chapter</entry> + </row> + </thead> + + + <tbody> + <row> + <entry><para>Library provider</para></entry> + <entry><para>Maven Integration Tool provide possibility to use in Eclipse libraries, which is pointed in dependencies pom.xml section, not adding them into the project Build Path.</para> + </entry> + <entry><para>Library provider chapter</para></entry> + </row> + <row> + <entry><para>Server deployment </para> </entry> + <entry>Server deployment is supported by Maven Integration Tools. With it you can deploy a project to the server by default Eclipse instruments. + </entry> + <entry>Deploy to the JBoss Server chapter + </entry> + </row> + <row> + <entry>JBoss Maven Integration Facet + </entry> + <entry>The facet gives possibility to mavenizing any Dynamic Web Project. + </entry> + <entry>Mavenizing Dynamic Web Project chapter. + </entry> + </row> + + + + </tbody> + </tgroup> + + + + </table> + <para>Starting from 3.1 M2 version JBoss Tools includes new JBoss Maven Integration plug-in which for now allows to create mavenized Seam projects and enable Seam tools support for imported Maven projects.</para> - <para>The Jboss Maven Integration requires m2eclipse to be installed.</para> - <note> - <title>Note:</title> - <para>For M2 release of <property>Jboss Tools</property> it is important to use m2eclipse - <ulink url="http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/">stable updatesite</ulink> or the - <ulink url="http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/releases/0.9.9.200906081351"... - integration build</ulink> that M2 was developed against. If you want to use the - latest development release of m2eclipse you need to use the <ulink - url="http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/trunk/&quo... - builds</ulink> of <property>JBoss Tools</property>.</para> - </note> + + </section> + <section> + <title>Requirements and Installation</title> + <para>The JBoss Maven Integration requires m2eclipse to be installed.</para> + <note> + <title>Note:</title> + <para>For M2 release of <property>JBoss Tools</property> it is important to use m2eclipse + <ulink url="http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/">stable update site</ulink> or the + <ulink url="http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/releases/0.9.9.200906081351"... + integration build</ulink> that M2 was developed against. If you want to use the + latest development release of m2eclipse you need to use the <ulink + url="http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/trunk/&quo... + builds</ulink> of <property>JBoss Tools</property>.</para> + </note> + </section> + <section> + <title>Other relevant resources on the topic:</title> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><ulink url="http://maven.apache.org/">maven.apache.org</ulink> is a official Apache Maven website.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><ulink url="http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/">m2eclipse.sonatype.org&... is a official m2eclipse (Maven Support plugin for Eclipse) website. </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + </section> + </chapter>