Release descriptors

[Lester Ward <lw...@tagaudit.com>]

Random idea -

It would be nice if there was some mechanism for automating the process of
integrating a new component into your application through Maven. For
example, suppose you want to add KillerWidget to your app. It would be neat
if the makers could supply a file with the release of KillerWidget (perhaps
the projext.xml, since for them to do this, they would need to be Maven
aware already?). There could be a special flag in the maven command line
that would take this file, examine its dependencies, and add those
dependencies into your own project.xml file.

I guess the important idea is the creation of a standard release description
for components that would allow automation of the component's integration.

Just a thought.

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