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Posted to dev@maven.apache.org by Cédric Vidal <c....@proxiad.com> on 2007/07/26 22:24:50 UTC
Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Hi Guys,
I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool called
Mavenizer:
http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't live without
it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not been
mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want to get
Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
JFreeReport 0.8.7:
http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code is pretty
monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code base from
the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be extended with
user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to release the
codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
already ;)
Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
Kind regards,
Cédric Vidal
PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
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RE: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Posted by Cédric Vidal <c....@proxiad.com>.
Hi Brian,
Thanx for your interest !
Cheers,
Cédric
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Brian E. Fox [mailto:brianf@reply.infinity.nu]
Envoyé : vendredi 27 juillet 2007 20:56
À : Maven Developers List
Objet : RE: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
I watched the demo, this looks like it will be a very handy tool!
-----Original Message-----
From: Cédric Vidal [mailto:c.vidal@proxiad.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:25 PM
To: dev@maven.apache.org
Subject: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Hi Guys,
I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool called
Mavenizer:
http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't live without
it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not been
mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want to get
Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
JFreeReport 0.8.7:
http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code is pretty
monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code base from
the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be extended with
user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to release the
codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
already ;)
Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
Kind regards,
Cédric Vidal
PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
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RE: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Posted by "Brian E. Fox" <br...@reply.infinity.nu>.
I watched the demo, this looks like it will be a very handy tool!
-----Original Message-----
From: Cédric Vidal [mailto:c.vidal@proxiad.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:25 PM
To: dev@maven.apache.org
Subject: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Hi Guys,
I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool called
Mavenizer:
http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't live without
it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not been
mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want to get
Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
JFreeReport 0.8.7:
http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code is pretty
monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code base from
the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be extended with
user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to release the
codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
already ;)
Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
Kind regards,
Cédric Vidal
PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
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RE: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Posted by Cédric Vidal <c....@proxiad.com>.
Thanx Jan !
Regards,
Cédric
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jan Nielsen [mailto:jan.sture.nielsen@gmail.com]
Envoyé : vendredi 27 juillet 2007 16:55
À : Maven Developers List
Objet : Re: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Very nice, Cédric! This will be very useful.
-Jan
On 7/26/07, Cédric Vidal <c....@proxiad.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool called
> Mavenizer:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't live
without
> it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not been
> mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
> mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want to get
> Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
>
> Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
> libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
>
> A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
> JFreeReport 0.8.7:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
>
> This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code is
pretty
> monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code base
from
> the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be extended
with
> user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to release the
> codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
> already ;)
>
> Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
> Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Cédric Vidal
>
> PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
> sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
>
>
>
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Re: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Posted by Jan Nielsen <ja...@gmail.com>.
Very nice, Cédric! This will be very useful.
-Jan
On 7/26/07, Cédric Vidal <c....@proxiad.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool called
> Mavenizer:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't live without
> it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not been
> mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
> mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want to get
> Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
>
> Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
> libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
>
> A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
> JFreeReport 0.8.7:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
>
> This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code is pretty
> monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code base from
> the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be extended with
> user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to release the
> codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
> already ;)
>
> Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
> Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Cédric Vidal
>
> PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
> sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
>
>
>
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RE: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Posted by Cédric Vidal <c....@proxiad.com>.
Hi Brett,
Nice to meet you :) I hadn't seen maven-jar-shared but it looks great, I
will definitely have a look at it. Using the same logic would be great.
Aardvark seems to address the mavenization of the build system of a project
built with maven 1 or ant (the automation of such a process is a very
challenging task by the way); On the other hand, Mavenizer addresses the
different problem of mavenizing artefacts produced by a build system not
based on Maven 2. The two tools are complementary and could indeed share
some common code base.
Regarding Archiva, actually I was also thinking about integrating Mavenizer
with Archiva's index. Currently, a big limitation of Mavenizer is that it
will only consider for its analysis jars found in specified local search
directories provided by the user, it cannot consider artifacts available on
public maven repositories. This means that if the user depends on a class
which cannot be found in the search path, then the generated descriptors
will be incomplete. Mavenizer could be much more efficient if it could also
search in Archiva's index using its web services. Leveraging Archiva's
index, Mavenizer could automatically guess what jars in the search path are
already mavenized, it could search classes globally, it could resolve
artefacts by checksum, etc ...
Well that sounds like there is a lot of very interesting stuff to do!
I would be very pleased indeed to keep in touch.
Regards,
Cédric
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Brett Porter [mailto:brett@apache.org]
Envoyé : jeudi 2 août 2007 07:06
À : Cédric Vidal
Cc : Maven Developers List
Objet : Re: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Hi Cédric,
Looks very cool. Nice work!
I was wondering if you've seen the maven-shared-jar component? http://
maven.apache.org/shared/maven-shared-jar/
This seems like something you could use (and if you have some
additional features, as it appears you do, you might contribute them
back). This would help use the same logic for identification across
multiple applications - the project dependency reports, and Archiva
for example.
While it dropped down my list recently, I'm about 2/3 done cleaning
up or "Aardvark" code base which also uses this. It has some similar
objectives to Mavenizer, but so far seems to have addressed the
opposite use cases - it has a Swing UI and primarily does things like
project.xml and build.xml conversion (though dependency selection is
an important part of that). It might be good to keep in touch?
Original mail: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/
200705.mbox/%3C4F599CD0-1AA3-4834-AEFB-323E500BC8B3@apache.org%3E
Cheers,
Brett
On 27/07/2007, at 6:24 AM, Cédric Vidal wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool
> called
> Mavenizer:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't
> live without
> it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not
> been
> mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
> mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want
> to get
> Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
>
> Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
> libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
>
> A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
> JFreeReport 0.8.7:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
>
> This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code
> is pretty
> monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code
> base from
> the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be
> extended with
> user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to
> release the
> codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
> already ;)
>
> Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
> Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Cédric Vidal
>
> PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
> sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
>
>
>
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Re: Announcing Mavenizer 1.0.0-alpha-1
Posted by Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>.
Hi Cédric,
Looks very cool. Nice work!
I was wondering if you've seen the maven-shared-jar component? http://
maven.apache.org/shared/maven-shared-jar/
This seems like something you could use (and if you have some
additional features, as it appears you do, you might contribute them
back). This would help use the same logic for identification across
multiple applications - the project dependency reports, and Archiva
for example.
While it dropped down my list recently, I'm about 2/3 done cleaning
up or "Aardvark" code base which also uses this. It has some similar
objectives to Mavenizer, but so far seems to have addressed the
opposite use cases - it has a Swing UI and primarily does things like
project.xml and build.xml conversion (though dependency selection is
an important part of that). It might be good to keep in touch?
Original mail: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/
200705.mbox/%3C4F599CD0-1AA3-4834-AEFB-323E500BC8B3@apache.org%3E
Cheers,
Brett
On 27/07/2007, at 6:24 AM, Cédric Vidal wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I would like to announce a new Apache licensed Maven 2 related tool
> called
> Mavenizer:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've been heavily using Maven for a long time and just couldn't
> live without
> it ;) but I often have to use third party libraries which have not
> been
> mavenized already or simply have bad repository metadata. Either way,
> mavenizing such libraries is a real pain especially when you want
> to get
> Maven 2 transitive dependencies right.
>
> Mavenizer attempts to ease the process of mavenizing such third party
> libraries by trying to do as much guess work as possible.
>
> A flash demo is available here, it illustrates the mavenization of
> JFreeReport 0.8.7:
> http://mavenizer.sourceforge.net/demos/jfreereport-0.8.7.html
>
> This is considered alpha software. Nothing is stable yet; the code
> is pretty
> monolithic and not pluggable at all. I plan on rewriting the code
> base from
> the ground up in a more pluggable way so that Mavenizer can be
> extended with
> user custom logic, naming strategies, etc ... But I wanted to
> release the
> codebase as is as a proof of concept and why not, it could be helpful
> already ;)
>
> Any feedback on the way you use it and successful mavenizations using
> Mavenizer would be really appreciated :) as well as bugs of course ^^
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Cédric Vidal
>
> PS: Mavenizer is not related to Maveniser (with an 's' and also on
> sourceforge), too bad the names are so close :(
>
>
>
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