Comments for Cato's Place

Comment on Ant, Ivy, JUnit 4.8.2 and OpenPojo – Part 1: Challenges by TheKaptain

TheKaptain — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:27:06 +0000

You can easily install a downloaded jar into your local maven repository and refer to it in your build dependencies. If you configure the jar in your pom, maven will actually give you back the required command line invocation(minus the file path) required to install the dependency in an error message.

Instructions for how to install the jar locally are here:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html

Cheers, and I look forward to hearing more about your ‘experiment’.

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Osman Shoukry

Osman Shoukry — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:16:06 +0000

@Peter – I am curious to know the outcome of the experiment as well, and how OpenPojo worked for you .

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:49:15 +0000

@Baruch – thanks for that, will take a look at your presentation.

@John – that was what I meant by being unsure if I would have problems with the test phase using 4.8.2 – as with it not being in the Maven repository what do I need to do to include it. Yes I agree this is not a fault with Maven, but if I need to use that version is it simpler to do it with Maven or Ant etc.

@Mark & Jospeh – I will take a look at buildr, and based on that and Baruch’s presentation maybe extend this experiment.

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Joseph Hirn

Joseph Hirn — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:23 +0000

Fantastic. It stripped my XML tags, just imagine this around the bottom part.

[dependency]

[groupId]I am a project that doesn’t publish to central[/groupId]
[artifactId]Therefore-I-can-put whatever-I-want-here[/artifactId]
[version]1234567[/version]
[scope]system[/scope]
[path]lib/openpojo.jar[/path]

[/dependency]

Of course the best way to do it is to install the jarfile into your repo, very easy if you are using Nexus.

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Joseph Hirn

Joseph Hirn — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:27:59 +0000

Yes please try Buildr too. It would make this a very complete assessment. It’s a damn shame that so many projects, are not publishing to Maven central. That hurts Ivy, Gradle and Buildr just as much as Maven.

For Maven you shouldn’t have to do more than this:

mvn archetype:generate (choose quickstart)
cd project-name
Change Junit version to the latest in pom.xml (jarvana.com for this)
mkdir lib
cp $downloads/openpojo.jar lib/

Add java 1.5 to the build (pet peeve, I hate java 1.4 as default: http://blog.cliffano.com/2007/07/10/going-java-15-with-maven2-based-project/)
Add this to pomfile (I also hate projects not in central):

I am a project that doesn’t publish to central
Therefore-I-can-put whatever-I-want-here
1234567
system
lib/openpojo.jar

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Tue, 04 May 2010 10:03:23 +0000

Don’t forget Buildr (buildr.apache.org)

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Baruch

Baruch — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:49:53 +0000

Last JavaEdge conference I made a session comparing different build tools (much more than Ant, Maven and Gradle). Take a look on it – http://prezi.com/ngwwf1wcfn7n/

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by andreagosto

andreagosto — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:42:12 +0000

i have just a littel experience about ant, i never see maven in action, but i know the importance of a build framework in my job. i will follow this your experiment with a lot of interest!

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by John Ferguson Smart

John Ferguson Smart — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:11:16 +0000

Hi Peter,

@Dave is correct – Maven will use whatever version of JUnit you specify in your pom file. But at the time of writing, I don’t think junit 4.8.2 has been published to the public repositories yet (4.8.1 is the latest version on repo1). That’s nothing to do with Maven, though

Comment on Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… by Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:49:48 +0000

@Dave: I know you can use a specific version of JUnit with Maven, but when running the test phase does it use a pre-determined version or a specified version. – A mentioned I have mainly maintained pom files, rather than written them – I am hoping increased understanding of the Maven build phases and set up will be part of what I will gain from the experiment.

@redsolo: I agree it will be interesting to see the results, and of course at the end of the day I will post my opinions but am hoping those opinions will raise some discussion.