[jira] Updated: (MNG-681) Plugin Utility Class

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-681?page=all ]

Brett Porter updated MNG-681:
-----------------------------

    Reporter: Jesse McConnell  (was: Jesse McConnell)

> Plugin Utility Class
> --------------------
>
>          Key: MNG-681
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-681
>      Project: Maven 2
>         Type: New Feature

>   Components: Plugin API
>     Versions: 2.0-alpha-3
>     Reporter: Jesse McConnell
>     Priority: Minor

>
>
> Tryg mentioned that we might want to make a plugins utility class for some of the issues I ran into implementing a mess of a plugin.
> the plugin was pinned into the process-classes phase and generated a source file which needed to be compiled
> 1) I needed to have the classes that were compiled in the compile phase in my classpath for the plugin.  my way around this was to make a URLClassLoader pointed at the compiled classes.  The classes I was processing all used one of two interfaces and it would have been nice to have those interfaces available to cast the new instances of the classes and call a method directly.  reflection served the purpose though
> 2) I needed to compile the freshly generated source file, so I ripped a mess of code from the maven compiler plugin to achieve this
> two examples of things that would be nice to have a cleaner method of achieving the same results..if you think it is a good idea I can generalize what I did into a couple of api's I think.

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators:
   http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see:
   http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira