[jboss-dev] split metadata

[Alexey Loubyansky]

Here is a wiki page for it http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/JBossMetaData

Alexey Loubyansky wrote:
> I have committed the split metadata now. The details are below. I'd like 
> to get feedback from the projects that use it.
> 
> I couldn't execute mvn deploy. It would fail with e.g.
> [INFO] Error retrieving previous build number for artifact 
> 'org.jboss.metadata:metadata-common:jar': repository metadata for: 
> 'snapshot org.jboss.meta
> data:metadata-common:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT' could not be retrieved from 
> repository: snapshots.jboss.org due to an error: Authorization failed: 
> Not authorized
> 
> So, if you want to build e.g. EJB metadata you have to check out ejb and 
> common projects, build and install common and then build ejb.
> 
> 
> New metadata structure
> ----------------------
> 
> Metadata project (version 1.0.X) has been split into several: common 
> project + one project per specific technology. The initial version for 
> all the new projects is 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT. The current list of the projects 
> is:
> - common
> - EJB
> - WEB
> - RAR
> - EAR
> - client
> 
> The common one contains stuff which is used by other projects, plus 
> common Java EE metadata, common JBoss metadata and WS metadata. These 
> could further be extracted to their own projects if needed.
> All technology-specific projects declare dependency on the common project.
> 
> 
> SVN repository
> --------------
> 
> The main location is 
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/metadata/. Under which each 
> project's trunk is located under project_name/trunk, e.g. common/trunk, 
> ejb/trunk, etc.
> 
> 
> Maven
> -----
> 
> groupId remains the same, i.e. org.jboss.metadata.
> artifactId is metadata-project_name, e.g. metadata-common, metadata-ejb, 
> etc.
> 
> 
> Things that were removed
> ------------------------
> 
> Packages org.jboss.ejb3.metamodel and org.jboss.metamodel.descriptor 
> weren't copied. I am not sure if they are used now.
> The same for org.jboss.metadata.test.ejb3 and 
> org.jboss.metadata.test.generator.
> 
> JAWS DTDs weren't copied neither (they shouldn't have been there from 
> the beginning).
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