[jbosstools-dev] An excursion into integration testing plugins with Arquillian

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>>
>> My main concern is that this is bringing in dependencies outside or 
>> our target platform thus
>> less easy to contain/check for overlaps. Also - using mvn copy goal 
>> seems to me to be the
>> better way rather than using ant auto builders?
>
> The ant auto builder [1] does hands-off maven by calling 'mvn 
> process-sources'. This always
> executes the mvn copy-dependencies goal so bringing in the 
> dependencies [2]. It has always been
> essential that any process happening while developing in Eclipse must 
> also occur when building on
> the command line through maven. This is an example of that with the 
> ant providing the plumbing
> between Eclipse and maven.

..isn't that what the tycho-m2 plugin does for you ?

/max
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