Re: maven-eclipse-plugin 2.4 & versioned projec

[Siarhei Dudzin <si...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Salman Moghal <sm...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks so much for the response.  Yes, I agree that it would be ideal if
> the name of the generated jar/war/ear file is kept same as the project
> directory name -- I believe that's what finalName does as per the docs (?).
>  However, my teammates responsible for maven builds don't like the idea at
> all.. tried really hard to convince otherwise even before we ran into this
> issue.  They want the generated file name template to contain project POM
> version, e.g. given POM project name "myproject" and POM version 1.0, the
> name of the generated JAR file will be myproject-1.0.jar.  Same goes for
> WAR and EAR modules.   And as soon as version'd project names are used,
> where the physical directory name does not contain POM version numbers
> obviously, it causes RAD 6/7 loose configuration to fail miserably, in
> context of WebSphere v6.1 runtime.
>

It is indeed as you mentioned finalName.
If they don't want to have final name fixed you could probably somehow parse
the ibm-specific deployment descriptors. Because artifact names are actually
hardcoded there. So if your version changes - you have a problem.



>
> Since you brought up maven-eclipse-plugin 2.5, it seems like it's pretty
> close to being officially realized.  Do you have the exact timeframe as to
> when it will be?  Days.. weeks.. months?
>

Hard to say, my impression is that it's in the state of "days" for a few
weeks now...


>
> I will take a look at the maven-eclipse-plugin 2.5 SNAPSHOT code.  The
> alternative is to recompile maven-eclipse-plugin 2.4 with the one-line
> code change as outlined earlier.. which I plan on doing today.  Any
> thoughts on this approach?
>

It's likely you will run into many more issues. To know which ones you can
see at all the closed issues that are scheduled for 2.5 release. I can tell
you in advance - if you use webservices you will have a problem.

It's really easier just to use 2.5-SNAPSHOT (unless you use release plugin).

Siarhei