[m2] using the mboot2 stuff in our own plugins

[David Sag <ds...@epo.org>]

Hi all,

We are writing a FindBugs plugin for maven 2 right now and it is failing 
when we run it within the maven2 environment, but when run atandalone it 
works fine.  So we are exploring how we'd run it from maven but as a 
standalone app.

Looking at the source for the surefire plugin we've seen that it makes use 
of objects from the maven-mboot2 plugin (is that actually a plugin?) and 
in fact mboot2 contains the SurefireBooter.  There is a class there called 
MBoot and a few other classes that look like they'd be very handy for us 
to use.  Are there any issues with depending on mboot2 we should be aware 
of?

Does anyone have any other advice on writing a plugin that needs to run in 
its own VM?

Kind regards,
Dave Sag 




 

Re: [m2] using the mboot2 stuff in our own plugins

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

Apart from the fact it is going away shortly? :)

We primarily use plexus-utils CommandLineUtils right now for forking a VM.
It has a couple of limitations we are looking to overcome, but it is pretty
simple to use.

- Brett

On 11/15/05, David Sag <ds...@epo.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are writing a FindBugs plugin for maven 2 right now and it is failing
> when we run it within the maven2 environment, but when run atandalone it
> works fine. So we are exploring how we'd run it from maven but as a
> standalone app.
>
> Looking at the source for the surefire plugin we've seen that it makes use
> of objects from the maven-mboot2 plugin (is that actually a plugin?) and in
> fact mboot2 contains the SurefireBooter. There is a class there called MBoot
> and a few other classes that look like they'd be very handy for us to use.
> Are there any issues with depending on mboot2 we should be aware of?
>
> Does anyone have any other advice on writing a plugin that needs to run in
> its own VM?
>
> Kind regards,
> Dave Sag
>
>
>
>
>