Re: Running Struts Cactus tests with Ant

[tomcatlist user <to...@tkz.net>]

I'm a maven novice, so I thought I'd share my experience building with 
maven:

I already submitted a patch for the obvious URL errors in the 
project.xml (I hope I did it correctly, as it's only my second patch 
submission). 

When I invoke maven, it complains about not finding commons-validator 
version 1.1.1-dev, so I tried modifying that to use the last version 
instead (1.0.2).  It's a good thing I  remembered someone mentioning 
commons-validator and the maven build.  Looking through my messages I 
found this:

> I've updated project.xml to reference the validator 1.1.1 jar. You need
> to manually download it from http://www.apache.org/~rleland/ and place
> it in your local repository.

If this is going to persist, maybe it might be worth a common in the 
project.xml?  If I wasn't paying attention to the list, I wouldn't 
necessarily know where to get the updated version.  :)

I got a lot of deprecation errors, but otherwise, both the default 
jar:jar and dist goals finished!  So with minor caveats, even a maven 
novice can build struts.  That's great considering.

Paul Sundling


Tim Chen wrote:

>Sorry.. The default target is currently set up as jar:jar
>That will do everything that you need it to.
>So all you have to do is:
>
>//step-by-step-build-struts-with-maven.readme
>1) Download maven 1.0 rc1 from http://maven.apache.org
>2) Add a maven_home env variable that points to where you installed
>maven to
>3) Add ${maven_home}/bin or %MAVEN_HOME%\bin to your path
>4) Optional: set
>MAVEN_OPTS=-Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.pro
>cessor.TransformerFactoryImpl
>	This is not really necessary as I set the path for the xalan
>TransformerFactory in the maven scripts but could save you the hassle
>with other projects that might require xalan.
>5) checkout jakarta-struts.
>NOTE: At this point you do not need to have anything in your classpath.
>6) cd to jakarta-struts root
>7) invoke either:
>	- > maven
>	by default runs jar:jar which will simply jar up
>struts-1.2.0.jar into your maven build directory (currently set to
>${jakarta-struts_home}/m-target)
>	- > maven dist
>	this task will create not just the jar but also create a
>${jakarta-struts_home}/m-target/distributions
>Directory that has zip and tar.gz versions of the bin and src
>distributions
>
>I have been really busy the last few weeks and haven't had a chance to
>help Joe or to complete the distributions. So it will not include all
>the items from the current ant build but at least you don't have to
>manually set anything in jakarta-struts anymore :)
>
>Tim Chen
>tchen@tampabay.rr.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Graham [mailto:grahamdavid1980@yahoo.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:52 PM
>To: Struts Developers List
>Subject: Re: Running Struts Cactus tests with Ant
>
>
>
>--- James Mitchell <jm...@apache.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Any chance someone wants to throw together a 
>>step-by-step-build-struts-with-maven.readme?
>>    
>>
>
>cd your-struts-dir
>maven build
>
>Anything much more complicated than that defeats the purpose of using
>Maven.
>
>David
>



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Re: Running Struts Cactus tests with Ant

[Joe Germuska <Jo...@Germuska.com>]

At 8:20 AM -0800 1/6/04, tomcatlist user wrote:
>I already submitted a patch for the obvious URL errors in the 
>project.xml (I hope I did it correctly, as it's only my second patch 
>submission).

You did it exactly right; as may be seen from the Bugzilla 
notification, I applied the patch and added some commentary about the 
Validator dependency.

Worth noting for anyone following this, I also bumped the Validator 
dependency to 1.1.1 (not -dev) since Rob doesn't serve the dev 
version any more (and because there was an actual 1.1.1 release).

Here's what I put in project.xml, in case anyone needs to deal with 
the dependency and doesn't want to go looking there:

       <!--
         Note that this version of commons-validator is not yet
         served from the iBiblio repository.  You can download
         a distribution from 
http://www.apache.org/~rleland/ValidatorAlpha/1.1.1/
         or build it from the CVS repository.  (With Maven, you can use
         the goal jar:install to build a jar and put it in your Maven 
repository.)
        
         If you download the binary, don't forget to rename to include 
the version number
         (from "commons-validator.jar" to "commons-validator-1.1.1.jar"
        
         If you build it from the CVS repository, you will probably end up with
         version 1.1.2-dev.  You can tell Maven to use that version with Struts
         by editing your "build.properties" file in the root of your local
         copy of the Struts CVS distribution.  Include these two lines:
         maven.jar.override=on
         maven.jar.commons-validator=1.1.2-dev
       -->

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