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Posted to dev@maven.apache.org by Vítor Souza <vi...@yahoo.com.br> on 2005/01/07 14:10:46 UTC
Maven Librarian
Hi,
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, if not, please
excuse me and point me to the right mailing list/forum.
I'm planning on using Maven at work and since I don't want to depend on
Ibiblio's repository and also don't like the way they have categorized
the artifacts, I'll use a local machine here at my company as the remote
repository.
On top of that, I realized a great feature is missing in current
versions of Maven: artifacts sub-dependencies. For instance,
apache/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar depends on
apache/commons-collections-3.1.jar, so if I configure commons-beanutils
as a dependency in my POM, Maven could automatically include
commons-collections for me.
To aid in both of those issues, I decided to start a project called
MavenLibrarian (http://mavenlibrarian.dev.java.net). It aims to be a
remote repository manager that also helps developers build their POMs.
Features:
- Manage groups of artifacs (create, edit, delete);
- Upload artifact;
- Browse the repository;
- Edit artifact;
- Define artifacts sub-dependencies;
- Generate <dependencies /> tag for POM;
- Search artifact;
- Refactor repository (batch changes);
- Import/export repository.
The most wanted feature for me is the POM generation. The developer
would specify which libraries (s)he wants to use and MavenLibrarian
would automatically include all sub-dependencies.
The first four functionalities are already done and you're welcome to
get the source from the CVS to try it out.
There is a Maven POM in the "mavenlibrarian/files" folder, but it
defines dependencies in terms of my local repository, so you might have
to adapt it to work with Ibiblio or any other repository. It depends on
WebWork, Hibernate, Spring, the Servlet API (compile-time), Commons Lang
and my utility package engenho-utils-1.1, which can also be found in the
"mavenlibrarian/files" folder.
One other thing: MavenLibrarian is currently configured to use a MySQL
database, but that can easily be changed in hibernate.cfg.xml. A SQL
script mavenlibrarian.sql is included in the "mavenlibrarian/files" folder.
As you can see, the app was designed to run here at my company, but can
be changed to an open-source tool for everyone to use. I'm sending this
message to see if any of you Maven developers are interested in
transforming it into an Official Maven tool after I'm done with the
features above. I would gladly donate it to the Apache Software
Foundation (it's already developed under the Apache Software License
anyways).
Also, ff any of you would like to contribute to it at this stage of
development, just join the project at dev.java.net and request a role as
developer. I'd be glad to have any partners on this.
Hope this is of interest of any of you.
Best regards,
- Vítor Souza
Engenho de Software (Brazil)
http://www.javablogs.com.br/blogs/page/engenho (Portuguese only)
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Re: Maven Librarian
Posted by Michal Maczka <mm...@interia.pl>.
Vítor Souza wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> Good to hear that the "recursive dependencies" thing is on Maven
> 2. It's a very important functionality IMHO.
>
> What I'll do then is continue developing MavenLibrarian internally
> and use it until Maven 2 comes out. When it does, I'll see if there is
> need to continue using MavenLibrarian.
>
Many people won't be using alpha & beta version of new maven and it
will stll take months to have a 2.0 release.
Some of the bits from m2 are going to be back ported to m1
but in any case maven1 is not going to diapear from day to day. I bet
there will be many people which are not going to switch..
Some of your planned features (e.g. repository searching , sync) will
be still useful for users of any version of maven.
Michal
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Re: Maven Librarian
Posted by Vítor Souza <vi...@yahoo.com.br>.
Hi Michal,
Good to hear that the "recursive dependencies" thing is on Maven 2.
It's a very important functionality IMHO.
What I'll do then is continue developing MavenLibrarian internally and
use it until Maven 2 comes out. When it does, I'll see if there is need
to continue using MavenLibrarian.
Thanks for the reply,
Vítor Souza
Michal Maczka wrote:
>> As you can see, the app was designed to run here at my company,
>> but can be changed to an open-source tool for everyone to use. I'm
>> sending this message to see if any of you Maven developers are
>> interested in transforming it into an Official Maven tool after I'm
>> done with the features above. I would gladly donate it to the Apache
>> Software Foundation (it's already developed under the Apache Software
>> License anyways).
>
> I think this is unlikly to happen as you are mostly reproducing the work
> which we already did for maven2, partially maven-proxy and continuum
> projects. It will be technically quite difficult to integrate your code
> with what we did.
>
>
> There are some features of your tool which migth be attractive for
> maven1 users and some ideas which are nice
> and planned to be supported in maven-land since a long time but neither
> implemented by you or us.
> I think that you will better serve the community (specially maven 1
> community) ... trying to compete with us :)
> There is nothing wrong if there is more then one supporting tool built
> on top of maven.
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Re: Maven Librarian
Posted by Michal Maczka <mm...@interia.pl>.
Vítor Souza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this is the right place to post this, if not,
> please excuse me and point me to the right mailing list/forum.
>
As long as it has something to do with maven - this is the rigth place :)
[...]
> As you can see, the app was designed to run here at my company,
> but can be changed to an open-source tool for everyone to use. I'm
> sending this message to see if any of you Maven developers are
> interested in transforming it into an Official Maven tool after I'm
> done with the features above. I would gladly donate it to the Apache
> Software Foundation (it's already developed under the Apache Software
> License anyways).
I think this is unlikly to happen as you are mostly reproducing the work
which we already did for maven2, partially maven-proxy and continuum
projects. It will be technically quite difficult to integrate your code
with what we did.
There are some features of your tool which migth be attractive for
maven1 users and some ideas which are nice
and planned to be supported in maven-land since a long time but neither
implemented by you or us.
I think that you will better serve the community (specially maven 1
community) ... trying to compete with us :)
There is nothing wrong if there is more then one supporting tool built
on top of maven.
>
> Also, ff any of you would like to contribute to it at this stage
> of development, just join the project at dev.java.net and request a
> role as developer. I'd be glad to have any partners on this.
>
> Hope this is of interest of any of you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Vítor Souza
regards
Michal
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