Re: Can I alter packaging with Maven?

[Manfred Moser <ma...@mosabuam.com>]

Thank you Stephen for that note. You just made my day and gave me a good laugh. Good luck with teaching KK ;-) 

Stephen Connolly wrote on 30.09.2014 11:03:

> Of course one of my long term goals is to teach KK how to use Maven... He
> keeps going to maven expecting a fight... And lo he gets one.
> 
> I keep trying to unwind his battles but every time I unwind one he's
> started two more...
> 
> In short, do not use the way Jenkins abuses maven as a way to learn how to
> use maven...
> 
> (Aside: KK's lack of full grök of maven explains *why* the jenkins maven
> (aka evil) job type is so evil)
> 
> On Tuesday, 30 September 2014, Les Hartzman <lh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Anders. I'll take a look at Jenkins. Sounds like an interesting
>> learning experience.
>>
>> Les
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Anders Hammar <anders@hammar.net
>> <java script:;>> wrote:
>>
>> > It is possible.
>> > One way is to use a generic packaging plugin like the
>> > maven-assembly-plugin. If that doesn't fit your desires, or you want a
>> > "nicer solution", writting your own plugin is a different way. For
>> example,
>> > have a look at the Android Maven Plugin which creates android archives.
>> >
>> > That being said, the web app you're talking about should be a standard
>> war
>> > projekt (which uses the maven-war-plugin to produce the war archive). The
>> > desktop app could possibly be a standard jar project. So I don't think
>> you
>> > need any special packaging plugins, but your question is rather how to
>> > handle these two flavors of your application. Something that you should
>> try
>> > to solve, as it will significantly simplify things, is to have only one
>> > package/archive. Have a look at how, for example, the Jenkins projekt has
>> > solved this. They produce a war file that is possible to deploy to a web
>> > container (web app) as well as start from command line (application).
>> When
>> > looking at that topic you're in pure Java land and shouldn't worry about
>> > Maven.
>> > If you need different config files it could be tricky to solve this way
>> > though.
>> >
>> > /Anders
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Les Hartzman <lhartzman@gmail.com
>> <java script:;>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I'm a fairly basic maven user and would like to know if it is possible
>> to
>> > > have maven support multiple type of packaging or if I need to look at a
>> > > different mechanism.
>> > >
>> > > What I want to do is to build a JavaFX application that depending on
>> how
>> > it
>> > > is packaged is either a desktop app or a web app.
>> > >
>> > > There would potentially be some different configuration files that
>> would
>> > > pertain to the different packaging options.
>> > >
>> > > Can I use maven in this way or does someone know of another means of
>> > > accomplishing the same thing?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks.
>> > >
>> > > Les
>> > >
>> >
>>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my phone
> 


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