Hi Michael On 9/27/05, Michael Aemisegger <dev-list@magnolia.info> wrote: > The committers of Jackrabbit also moved to the multi project layout some time > ago. Just recently they decided to revert the switch, because they found that > the multi project layout is not yet mature enough, doesn't suite their needs > and is to cumbersome to maintain. > > Can you briefly summarize why the situation for magnolia is different and why > we should not care about the experience of the jackrabbit team?
Yes, I know that story but I think that a split makes a lot more sense for a projects like magnolia than like jackrabbit. First of all it's a web application, but if your are writing "extensions" you don't want to depend on a webapp... at this moment we can't add a separate, optional module that can be then aggregate in the magnolia webapp, that cause a circular dependency (you need the webapp to build the module, and need the module to assemble the webapp). What the scope of magnolia modules if, if you want to build a module, you have to build the whole webapp? We need at least to produce a jar for the core API, for users who want to develop their own extensions, and probably separate it from the admin interface and tag libraries... Having well defined and separated artifacts also allows maven users to start a magnolia project easily. I started moving to a multiproject structure months ago, and I too found it more harder to maintain due to maven1 limitations... but now the first m2 beta are out and multiproject there is a lot simpler (it makes absolutely no difference in using a single module project or multiple modules). As I discussed before I plan moving to m2 as soon as the reporting stuff will match the one in maven1. Using maven and its eclipse plugin + eclipse/WTP makes working with this layout really simple (the WTP extension is already available in m2 and will be soon integrated into the official m1 plugin, since I'm now a maven committer ;) ) I absolutely don't want to add ant scripts and custom processes in order to split jars or anything similar, THAT is too cumbersome for me fabrizio ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://www.magnolia.info/en/magnolia/developer.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
