[rules-dev] Guvnor build changes summary

[Jervis Liu]

Good job, Geoffrey! BTW, what is this about: "split up drools-guvnor 
into drools-guvnor-gwtclient and drools-guvnor-server" ?

Thanks,
Jervis

Geoffrey De Smet wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> The Guvnor build has changed somewhat. Here's the changes:
> - "mvn clean compile" now compiles the GWT java sources to javascript 
> with the gwt-maven-plugin.
> -- So now, to really clean build guvnor, you don't need to run the ANT 
> script separate no more
> -- The maven plugin is about 50% faster than the ANT script.
> -- This makes the entire drools build slower (as it now gwt compiles 
> too), but I am looking into improving that (for example in a development 
> mode profile, we can only gwt compile to english and firefox)
> - The generated GWT javascript files have been removed from subversion 
> and are now generated under the target/drools-guvnor directory
> -- No more A43BF34D23567676DF.js files in svn or tree conflicts on those 
> directories
>
> I haven't split up drools-guvnor into drools-guvnor-gwtclient and 
> drools-guvnor-server, because GWT simply doesn't really allow that (not 
> without making the solution worse than the problem at least...).
>
> If you feel any rough edges, let me know and I 'll take a look at it.
>
> I 'll remove the old ANT script soon, once the maven filtering for the 
> version and revision is in place.
>