| Re: [m2e-users] Maven, Eclipse, Nexus, Perforce, Team City, Oh My! |
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Thanks Asaf :-) You're telling me Maven requires an advanced Maven Admin on the team/organization? No-one told me that before. I am the only one on the team with any Maven experience, and I am the software architect on a new infrastructure project, and since January the only person who has written any code on the project. My goal is to change that next week and let others start working on the code base. It would have been sooner, but I have been fighting Maven, Nexus and m2e configuration hassles for almost two weeks. Anyway, I started the wiki article to try share some of what I have learned. I still have more to figure out too, like the Team City side. Yes, the Sonatype book is helpful to get your bearings, but does not sufficiently address the deeper issues that as far as I can tell are still only tribal knowledge shared in the mailing lists. I figured out that when using m2e, that preferences>maven>Installations:Global Settings and preferences>maven>user settings:user settings both have to point to the same place, and I wanted the settings to be under source control so if I have to change them, the whole team will pick up the changes. Your solution would have been my first choice, but in Windows soft links are problematic, especially with Windows XP, which some of our team still use. Google 'reparse points' and you will see how messed up Microsoft's view of the world is. Windows 7 finally has soft links like Unix, but they are still not as convenient to use as in Unix, and it will be a while before the rest of our team upgrade to Windows 7. The most expedient and flexible solution I could come up with at the moment was to put settings.xml in the same path as the rest of the source control. Using the Windows 'subst' command gives me similar flexibility to soft links - and is easy to implement in Windows XP. While I was at it I decided to put the local repository there too because I can tell Perforce to ignore it with the .p4ignore file (using team>perforce>ignore in Eclipse). I know it all seems weird, but after trying many other things in Windows, it was the most simple way I could get things to work. Thanks for asking these questions - it mean I need to explain myself better in the wiki article. I have renamed the article to "Windows, Maven, Eclipse, Nexus, Perforce, Team City, Oh My!" Where I work, Perforce is the tool we have, it is the tool the team knows how to use. For months I actually had things working with IBM Jazz Team Concert. It has it's own source control system that is not ClearCase, it's much better, and all the other Jazz tools are highly integrated. I am told Team Concerts' source control is more similar to Git, but I have no direct experience with Git. Eventually I switched back to our current set of tools because I did not have the resources to be sys admin for Jazz, and teach the team a new set of tools. Thanks for in info on Git, I will have to look into it more some day. Cheers, Eric On 2011-08-07 12:42 PM, Asaf Mesika wrote:
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