Matt RaibleMatt Raible is a Web Developer and Java Champion. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

The Angular Mini-Book The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.

Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy.

For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.

The JHipster Mini-Book The JHipster Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap, and Spring Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster.

This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.

For book updates, follow @jhipster-book on Twitter.

10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

RECENT ENTRIES


Tag Cloud


abbie appfuse birthday denver family grails gwt jack java javascript jhipster jsf linkedin maven roller skiing softwaresummit spring springmvc struts2 travel trish vacation webframeworks wicket
« Another Hibernate... | Main | Jenerator »
Friday December 13, 2002

What Maven Does

I, like Charles, was unsure of what Maven did. James has made it clear and I have seen the light - I think. In my AppFuse project, I have a lib directory that contains all the various third-party jars I'm using in my build process. Among these are XDoclet, Struts, Cactus, JSTL, Hibernate, JUnitDoclet, etc. The problem is that this directory is ~16MB and if I add it to CVS, I've got a monster project. The zipped up version of AppFuse's source is 14MB! That's enough to scare off folks right there.

It sounds to me that Maven can help me out in 2 ways. It can be used to download and install these jars as part of the build process. Slick if it can! Can it get me nightly builds from CVS? The 2nd feature seems to be building a project website for me. That's cool and definitely better than my simple readme file. However, can I make my site look like this (my site) rather than this (Maven site)? The good news I see is that the generated website does use XHTML and a DOCENGINE:

<!DOCENGINE html PUBLIC "-//CollabNet//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.collabnet.com/dtds/collabnet_transitional_10.dtd">

The bad news is that it's not a standard DOCENGINE and even after I override the doctype and charset, it still does not validate. Of coure, this may not be a big deal, but if this were to be more "standard" it would be easier to convince folks like me to jump on the bandwagon. If there's templates I can modify, show me, and I'll dig like a miner that's struck gold.

Posted in Java at Dec 13 2002, 12:25:05 AM MST 2 Comments
Comments:

Firstly yes Maven will automatically download any dependent jars for you. There is a standard jar repository here... http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/ If you need a new jar added to the repository, just mail [email protected]. Eventually we'll have a web application to make this easier. You can use multiple repositories - so you can have your own internal or external repositories too. Hopefully increasingly folks will host their own repositories. On the documentation - its easy in Maven to customize or even replace any particular goal implementation. So if you want to change how the XML -> HTML step works, just overload the goal in your maven.xml file. There's much more documentation on both these topics on the Maven website.

Posted by James Strachan on December 13, 2002 at 08:55 AM MST #

Sweet - this sounds like just the solution I was looking for! I was a little hesitant about releasing a product that requires a 20 MB download to generate a 3MB WAR file. Maven to the rescue...

Posted by Matt Raible on December 13, 2002 at 09:38 AM MST #

Post a Comment:
  • HTML Syntax: Allowed