Maven Notes
Posted by mattc at Nov 18, 08 09:40 PM ... Comments (0)
I'm trying out Maven at work, it's not much fun.
It solves some of your problems quite neatly, like JAR dependencies. The subscriber concept works conceptually (ie. in Ant terms, targets listen out for standardised events rather than having to chain them together), but all the documentation I've read explains things in such a roundabout way that it just confuses matters. Here's a helpful quote from the O'Reilly Maven book (page 182),
The interesting phase in the clean lifecycle is the clean phase. The Clean plugin's clean goal (clean:clean) is bound to the clean phase in the clean lifecycle. The clean:clean goal deletes the output of a build by deleting the build directory.
Got that? Rather than,
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
<target>
One good thing: Maven has a published XSD, which I don't think Ant has ever bothered with.
Maybe I'll get it in a week or two.
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