Hi all,
This is an important question for us.
Nick and I are now convinced that .target files are not the panacea
to drive dependency management at build time. It adds a lot of
additional steps and it does not work that easily in the Maven way.
We are thinking of some alternatives way to provide a "dependency"
repository that would contain only the necessary stuff for you to
work on your component. Then we'll just manage this repository
instead of a .target file, it should make our daily work better and
remove lot of complexity.
See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10915 and comments
starting from here
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11157?focusedCommentId=12676643&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12676643
for more details/debate.
So we more and more think this .target file is useless, and we'd
like to get rid of it (uselessness is bad). But before that, we'd
like to know whether some of you do use the generated .target file.
If yes, we'll have to think on a better way to make everyone happy.
So if you use .target file, raise your hand!