Some maven questions

[Sony Antony <so...@gmail.com>]

Im fairly new to maven.
Tried getting answers to these from books and google. Trying my luch here

1. can I add more custom phases to the 23 already defined (
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html#Lifecycle_Reference
 )
( - I read that phases are already hard coded in a file called
components.xml which is used at compile time. This seemed to imply that I
cannot ad/change to teh list of existing phases.
On teh other hand I read that phases can be added by using <extensions> (
needs a custom plugin/mojo to be written )

2. Is it possible to turn off a particular phase from being fired for an
already given packaging ( say jar : Can I turn off test phase - [ Im aware
of skip.test=true. My question was more general ] )
3. Is it possible to turn off a plugin from being fired for a particular
phase.


4. If I have an ant task that requires a <taskdef>, which is teh preferred
way to provide the class file that implements the task :
- As a plugin dependency ?

5. In general I noticed that antrun was slow. Was this something in our
environment. Or is it known to be slow in general

Thank you very much.

--sony

Re: Some maven questions

[Brian Fox <br...@infinity.nu>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Sony Antony <so...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im fairly new to maven.
> Tried getting answers to these from books and google. Trying my luch here
>
> 1. can I add more custom phases to the 23 already defined (
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html#Lifecycle_Reference
>  )
> ( - I read that phases are already hard coded in a file called
> components.xml which is used at compile time. This seemed to imply that I
> cannot ad/change to teh list of existing phases.
> On teh other hand I read that phases can be added by using <extensions> (
> needs a custom plugin/mojo to be written )

Adding phases is not the right way to go. Adding new plugin bindings
to the correct phases is the right way.

>
> 2. Is it possible to turn off a particular phase from being fired for an
> already given packaging ( say jar : Can I turn off test phase - [ Im aware
> of skip.test=true. My question was more general ] )
> 3. Is it possible to turn off a plugin from being fired for a particular
> phase.
>

For a predefined packaging type, no you can't unbind things. Some
plugins have skip flags or ways to neuter them, but they still run

>
> 4. If I have an ant task that requires a <taskdef>, which is teh preferred
> way to provide the class file that implements the task :
> - As a plugin dependency ?
>

Yes. Add it as a dependency element inside the plugin section of your pom.

> 5. In general I noticed that antrun was slow. Was this something in our
> environment. Or is it known to be slow in general
>

unknown.

> Thank you very much.
>
> --sony
>

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Re: Some maven questions

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sony Antony <so...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im fairly new to maven.
> Tried getting answers to these from books and google. Trying my luch here

You'll probably get better answers if you start a separate thread with
a descriptive subject for each of your questions.

-- 
Wendy

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