Copy Page

You are not logged in. Any changes you make will be marked as anonymous. You may want to Log In if you already have an account. You can also Sign Up for a new account.

<p>This proposal is a collection of features and changes that I think are necessary for Maven to not suck.  Obviously, not sucking is a completely subjective goal so it is defined as making Maven do what Don Brown thinks it should do.  I've created a branch in the Maven sandbox to collect my changes and facilitate any collaboration.  I'll be converting any new features or changes into Maven JIRA issues to encourage the code to get back into the Maven project, however it is anticipated that many changes will be rejected as they may go against the official Maven direction.</p>

<p>The deliverable from this proposal is a set of sandbox &quot;releases&quot; or versioned snapshots that I will be using in my open source and commercial work, however, I hope other people will find them useful.  I'll be making the changes on the latest released version of Maven to ensure stability.</p>

<h2>Features</h2>

<table class="confluenceTable"><tbody>
<tr>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Feature </p></th>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Issue </p></th>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Accepted </p></th>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Rejected </p></th>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> -db version </p></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> HTTP Wagon to use standalone HTTPClient </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WAGONHTTP-17">WAGONHTTP-17</a> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT-db1 </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Parallel artifact retreival </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3379">MNG-3379</a> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT-db1 </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Specify plugin versions in super POM </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> <a href="http://www.nabble.com/Plugin-Versions-in-the-Super-pom-to15367074s177.html">Nabble</a><a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3395">MNG-3395</a> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> <br class="atl-forced-newline" /> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 2.0.8-db1 </p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

<h2>Changelog</h2>

<table class="confluenceTable"><tbody>
<tr>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Version </p></th>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Date </p></th>
<th class="confluenceTh"><p> Description </p></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 2.0.8-db1 </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 3 Feb </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Plugin versions in super pom, full release, went back to 2.0.8 for stability </p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 2.0.9-SNAPSHOT-db1 </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> 29 Jan </p></td>
<td class="confluenceTd"><p> Only uber jar, Java 1.4 compliant, no Commons Logging issues </p></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

<h2>How to install it</h2>

<p>Uniquely versioned snapshots can be found here:</p>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://people.apache.org/~mrdon/maven-db">http://people.apache.org/~mrdon/maven-db</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Download the release file that best suites your environment and install it like any normal Maven installation.</p>

<h2>How to develop it</h2>

<ol>
	<li>Checkout the code
<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/sandbox/branches/maven/maven-db/
</pre></td></tr></table></li>
	<li>Install the standalone version of httpclient in your local Maven repository:
<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>
cd maven-db
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=commons-httpclient -DartifactId=commons-httpclient -Dversion=3.1-standalone -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=commons-httpclient-3.1-standalone.jar
</pre></td></tr></table></li>
	<li>Install the wagon http
<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>
cd wagon-http-trunk
mvn install
</pre></td></tr></table></li>
	<li>Build Maven
<table class="wysiwyg-macro" data-macro-name="code" style="background-image: url(/plugins/servlet/confluence/placeholder/macro-heading?definition=e2NvZGV9&amp;locale=en_GB&amp;version=2); background-repeat: no-repeat;" data-macro-body-type="PLAIN_TEXT"><tr><td class="wysiwyg-macro-body"><pre>
cd ../maven-2.0.8
mvn install
</pre></td></tr></table></li>
</ol>

<p>You should now have built the release available in the <code>maven-2.0.8/maven-core/target</code> directory.</p>