That&#39;s interesting.<br><h2 style="margin-left: 40px;">The Basics of Creating Rails Plugins</h2>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">A Rails plugin is either an extension or a modification of the core 
framework. Plugins provide:</p>
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>a way for developers to share bleeding-edge ideas without hurting 
the stable code base</li><li>a segmented architecture so that units of code can be fixed or 
updated on their own release schedule</li><li>an outlet for the core developers so that they don’t have to 
include every cool new feature under the sun</li></ul><a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/plugins.html">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/plugins.html</a><br><br>Sounds like CDI PEs (portable extensions) was a ripoff of this idea...  And wasn&#39;t seam-gen alarmingly similar to Grails in terms of quick project setup/startup?  <br>
<br>PE is strikingly similar to Rails plugins based on the above description when you think of Seam 3 having Weld as its new core and the &quot;extras&quot; like jBPM integration, remoting, iText, PDF, Excel, etc.<br><br>
Maven 2 already has the concept of MOJO (Maven POJO) and plugins:<br><br><a href="http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html">http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html</a><br>
<br>Not sure what added-value you&#39;re suggesting??<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Piotr Steininger <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:piotr.steininger@gmail.com">piotr.steininger@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>I totally agree. Weld archetypes are probably the best polished ones I have ever seen. They remind me of some of the Rails semantics (get up and running in minutes). </div>
<div><br></div><div>These similarities got me thinking about another aspect of Rails - Plugins or gems (which I think is a mixed bag). The promise of plugins/gems is that you can quickly add dependent code and do some setup in minutes as well. I think that maven could very well be a platform to do the same. Currently one has to add dependencies by hand and quite often tweak the exclusions. With the introduction of maven console plugin, I think the door became open to create maven plugins/console scripts to make this a more automated process.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t have the expertise to create a prototype. I also don&#39;t know if this is really something that could be useful in the community (or simply serve as a tool for Maven newbies).</div><div><br>

</div><div>In any case, I wanted to see what the community thinks about this.</div><div><br></div><div> <br> <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Dan Allen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dan.j.allen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.j.allen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">The Weld archetype initiative has had a further reaching impact than just the community of developers interested in using CDI (via Weld). A recent blog entry on Sonatype cites the Weld archetypes as &quot;the perfect case study of how using Archetypes benefits the community.&quot; Steven is acknowledged for his effort to identify the need of archetypes and ultimately get them promoted to Maven central for all to use.<br>


<br><a href="http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/01/maven-archetypes-and-nexus-there-is-no-faster-way/" target="_blank">http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/01/maven-archetypes-and-nexus-there-is-no-faster-way/</a><br><br>

Although archetypes are rather technically simple, it&#39;s important to
recognize the impact they can have by starting people off on the right
foot.<br><br clear="all">-Dan<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Dan Allen<br>Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><a href="http://mojavelinux.com" target="_blank">http://mojavelinux.com</a><br>


<a href="http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction" target="_blank">http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction</a><br><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen</a><br>


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