Temporal coincidence or news on maven builds
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entry about building applications with Apache Maven and where I see the most demanding problems with Maven builds.
Coincidentally Jason van Zyl a mastermind behind the Apache Maven Project wrote a series of articles on the blog at Sonartype, which are describing the future road map of Maven 3.0.
Some thoughts about building
Over the last few days I had some thoughts about building your project. I am using Apache Maven for quite a while now. At my current employer we use Maven for all our components even our learn portal which is build entirely in Adobe Flex, using the Flexmojos.
The bottom line is that we have approximately 100 projects build with maven to build our entire platform. You don't need much imagination that we have a couple of challenges to meet.
Maven and Flex hoodoo
The last time when I blogged about the Flex mojos I was still quite frustrated and thought I had a better solution. Now some time passed and on April the 3rd the new version (3.1) of the flex mojos was released and me and some of my colleges made some interesting discoveries.
Mavenizing a Flex build
In the last week the release 1.0 platform release of scoyo came close and we were tying up some loose ends. One of these ends was the integration of the scoyo Flash/Flex portal build process into the platform build process.
The platform build process is realized with Apache Maven, which is, in humble my opinion, still the first choice for Java based software projects, but integrating other project types into maven is a kind of challenging due to the nature of Maven. You may summarize this in: If you do it the maven way it's very easy, if you don't it is up to you ...
Luckily there was already an existing build with Ant and a dysfunctional Maven variant with the Maven Flex-mojos plugin. So it stated my journey to insanity an back ...