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Friday January 03, 2003

Using Both Ant and Maven

Erik Hatcher makes a request to get his JavaDevWithAnt project converted from using Ant to Maven:

Ok, a challenge to the Maven or Centipede experts tuning into my blog: make my JavaDevWithAnt project build with either. But the trick is that it has to be simpler than the current Ant build.xml. Believe it or not, I've not (seriously) used either of these tools. I hear the buzz about these and want to become a "believer".

I'm all for this as I've created my AppFuse project using his directory structure/build file as a template. I did go down this path to Mavenism already, but gave up before I finished. My problem is I have 15 different 3rd party JARs I use in my project - many testing frameworks and jakarta stuff. And a lot of these are nightly (or personal) builds because there's been some bug fixed, or enhancement added. What I really want is to continue using Ant b/c I think it rocks and it gives me more control over little tasks, but also to use Maven to generate a project site.

The problem with Erik's request is that I'm guessing no one will jump at the opportunity. Maybe, but in reality, no one looks at each others code unless there's a bug, or they need a sample to get started. Too bad - we could really do wonders for the Java Community if we started reviewing each others code. Erik, maybe you could post little snippets of your build file, and we could convert small parts of it. By posting a measly 10 lines, some other coders might be so inclined to help mavenize it. I know this is not how Maven works, but it sure would be nice if using Maven didn't require abandoning Ant.

Tonight I'll be staying up late trying to finish up AppFuse and Struts-Resume. Since the security-example download seems to be getting a lot of traffic (and it's a 15MB download), I should probably try to get these projects into SourceForge and save myself some bandwidth. Who knows if I'll get it done, I'm pretty tired, and it's already 10:00. But what choice do I have - Saturdays are family days, I promised my client that I pump a bunch of new features out on Sunday, and I get to work an 80 hour-week next week to get our first version out at my new job. Ugh, I need a vacation.

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