[hibernate-dev] Re: maven migration

[Steve Ebersole]

Did not realize repositories for plugins are specified separately from
"regular" repositories.  So duplicate the JBoss info given below as a
pluginRepository as well...


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:46 -0500, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> 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>