"deploy" and "artifact" plugins

[Dominik Roblek <dr...@yahoo.com>]

I'm pretty confused when looking at "artifact" and
"deploy" plugins. It seems to me, that they offer very
similar functionality. Some plugins depends on
"artifact" plugin (e.g. "ejb", "war", "ear",
"javadoc") and some on "deploy" plugin (e.g. "dist").
And "deploy" plugin doesn't delegate its work to
artifact plugin. Why?

Also "deploy" plugin depends on "maven.repo.central"
property and "artifact" plugin depends on somewhat
redundant "maven.repo.list” property.

There seems to be another "site" plugin which offer
quite similar functionality to "deploy" plugin but it
is implemented in its one way. Why such diversity? Is
it necessary or is it so because of historical
reasons?

Otherwise Maven seems great tool, as far as I learned
about it! Just all these deployers make me confused me
and I don't know how to use them in right way.

Thanks for your help,
Dominik Roblek

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RE: "deploy" and "artifact" plugins

[Michal Maczka <mm...@interia.pl>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominik Roblek [mailto:droblek@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:58 PM
> To: dev@maven.apache.org
> Subject: "deploy" and "artifact" plugins
>
>
> I'm pretty confused when looking at "artifact" and
> "deploy" plugins. It seems to me, that they offer very
> similar functionality.

Deploy plugin is assumed to be "stable", while the code Artifact plugin is
still experimental phase

I am currently working on new framwork which will be used in maven artifact
plugin.
When code is well tested it will most likely completly replace deploy
plugin.

Michal



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