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| Importing legacy artifacts Into M2 Repository from Eclipse [message #1271] |
Fri, 18 April 2008 02:52  |
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Originally posted by: cl.houze.etat.ge.ch
Hi M2E team,
first of all, thanks to all Maven and M2E contributors for the great job
you've done. Here in our organization (Computer dept for Geneva State,
Switzerland) we've packaged a software dev infarstructure based on Maven,
Eclipse Europa(J2ee), M2Eclipse, Jonas, Cargo, and some others plugins
plus a set of in-house parents POMs, archetypes, and tools enforcing our
standards, for a load of new and existing applications(this including
critical applications such as taxation processing). We plan to provide
continuous integration this summer for our dev teams, and migrate to Maven
as many projects as possible for better build quality.
This is why we're more than happy about the M2Eclipse project proposal.
One of the in-house tool we've done is an "artifact importer": in fact,
it's a gui layer above "mvn install:install / deploy:deploy" that allows
to easily import legacy artifacts and associated sources, because you may
want to use (many) artifacts from projects that wont be converted to
Maven. I think I've seen this kind of need somewhere in Maven mailing
list. We're currently including this utility as an Eclipse plugin. Maybe
m2e could include such utility, or the community could be interested by
this, but I dont know what is the process for submitting code, so let me
know if giving this makes sense.
Now, to get back to M2E current version 0.9.2, it looks great, and we're
going to upgrade soon. As it's very promising, for future versions we'd
like to get real seamless integration between any WTP project type and
Maven project structure.
Anyway, wishing success to this initiative !
Christian-Luc
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| Re: Importing legacy artifacts Into M2 Repository from Eclipse [message #3114 is a reply to message #1271] |
Fri, 18 April 2008 11:24  |
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Originally posted by: igorfie.yahoo.com
Chrisrtian-Luc Houze wrote:
> Hi M2E team,
>
> first of all, thanks to all Maven and M2E contributors for the great job
> you've done. Here in our organization (Computer dept for Geneva State,
> Switzerland) we've packaged a software dev infarstructure based on
> Maven, Eclipse Europa(J2ee), M2Eclipse, Jonas, Cargo, and some others
> plugins plus a set of in-house parents POMs, archetypes, and tools
> enforcing our standards, for a load of new and existing
> applications(this including critical applications such as taxation
> processing). We plan to provide continuous integration this summer for
> our dev teams, and migrate to Maven as many projects as possible for
> better build quality.
>
> This is why we're more than happy about the M2Eclipse project proposal.
>
> One of the in-house tool we've done is an "artifact importer": in fact,
> it's a gui layer above "mvn install:install / deploy:deploy" that allows
> to easily import legacy artifacts and associated sources, because you
> may want to use (many) artifacts from projects that wont be converted to
> Maven. I think I've seen this kind of need somewhere in Maven mailing
> list. We're currently including this utility as an Eclipse plugin. Maybe
> m2e could include such utility, or the community could be interested by
> this, but I dont know what is the process for submitting code, so let me
> know if giving this makes sense.
The best way to start is to create an enhancement request in M2E JIRA
(http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE) and attach proposed patch
there.
> Now, to get back to M2E current version 0.9.2, it looks great, and we're
> going to upgrade soon. As it's very promising, for future versions we'd
> like to get real seamless integration between any WTP project type and
> Maven project structure.
There is a number of bug/enhancement requests about M2E/WTP integration
in M2E JIRA already. To help us prioritize work better, it would be
great if you could file enhancement requests and/or vote for existing
JIRAs. Also, have a look at current M2E/WTP integration proposal
http://archive.m2eclipse.codehaus.org/dev/47FEEAA8.2040406%4 0md.pp.ru
and you're more than welcome to join the discussion.
--
Regards,
Igor Fedorenko
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| Re: Importing legacy artifacts Into M2 Repository from Eclipse [message #3146 is a reply to message #1271] |
Fri, 18 April 2008 16:01 |
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Chrisrtian-Luc Houze wrote:
> One of the in-house tool we've done is an "artifact importer": in
> fact, it's a gui layer above "mvn install:install / deploy:deploy"
> that allows to easily import legacy artifacts and associated sources,
> because you may want to use (many) artifacts from projects that wont
> be converted to Maven.
I am somewhat confused, because those goals only work for Maven
projects that have existing poms. Though there is install:install-file
and deploy:deploy-file goals that allow to deploy arbitrary jars.
> I think I've seen this kind of need somewhere in Maven mailing list.
> We're currently including this utility as an Eclipse plugin. Maybe m2e
> could include such utility, or the community could be interested by
> this, but I dont know what is the process for submitting code, so let
> me know if giving this makes sense.
Right. I think that could be a good tool (perhaps it would be useful
to package it as a standalone RCP app). We had something simple
contributed at some point, but it didn't make into the code (totally my
fault). http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-335
One thing that might be interesting to cover is how to generate proper
maven metadata. For example, assign parent poms with all project
details, analyze and populate dependencies in generated poms and so on.
So, it isn't small task if you want to go whole nine yards. Though all
pieces are already there and just need to be assembled together with
nice UI frontend.
More over, if we deal with Eclipse/osgi artifacts, things get bit more
complicated because of mapping from osgi naming conventions to Maven.
There are some Maven plugins to handle that, and we also have this
covered in Tycho plugins that we are using for building Eclipse plugins
and RCP applications.
> Now, to get back to M2E current version 0.9.2, it looks great, and
> we're going to upgrade soon. As it's very promising, for future
> versions we'd like to get real seamless integration between any WTP
> project type and Maven project structure.
WTP integration is certainly in our plans. There is some experimental
work in progress already happening, but we could use additional help
with that. You can watch the following wiki page for that and/or add
your use cases and ideas there.
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Integration+with+ WTP
regards,
Eugene
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