Re: [jdf-dev] Quickstarts - Single or Multiple Projects

On 16 Jan 2013, at 16:18, Darran Lofthouse wrote: > On 01/16/2013 04:14 PM, Pete Muir wrote: >> Mostly, we've split the two projects, to keep the maven bit simple, but there isn't a hard rule here. > > I have to say I don't really see a simplicity gain in having multiple projects - the only thing possibly a little more complex in a single project is that some artefacts are now set with a scope of runtime although for a project deploying a jar they probably don't need a scope setting at all. > > For the multi artefact approach we end up with three poms that need to be maintained together. Maven is designed to produce one artifact per project, not multiple artifacts per project. You need to introduce quite a lot of xml to produce multiple artifacts. The LOC of Maven is definitely higher with three projects, but a lot is identical, so that doesn't increase the complexity - in fact, most of the xml is the same as what is in other projects so even simpler. BTW the maven guidelines are for one artifact per maven project.