Hi Guys,
I invested several days in extending Flexmojos to use the flex-sdk-converter
(AKA Mavenizer). I ended up with a version of Flexmojos that allowed to build
flex applications without any dependencies at all (compiler, player/airglobal,
framework were added automatically). By setting some properties flexmojos would
auto-download the resources and convert them. I even managed to have the
compiler resources automatically added to the plugin classpath.
The huge downside of this approach is that other maven plugins don't deal
really well with this. For example the dependency:tree plugin doesn't show the
libs and IntelliJ doesn't either. I was also really worried that I was working
around mavens dependency resolutions strategies which could mess up some things
big time.
I therefore tried something completely different. I created a core maven
extension. You can think of this as a plugin for maven itself. With this I
added a Maven "EventSpy" which monitors Maven for resolution requests to Flex
related artifacts. If one of these fail to resolve, the SDK Converter kicks in
to download, convert and install the artifacts. Depending on the Maven version
you are using this has to be installed slightly different.
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If you are using Maven 3.3.1 or above (Yeah ... not too much above that yet ;-):
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- create a ".mvn" directory in your projects root.
- create an "extensions.xml" inside that directory with the following content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>org.apache.flex.utilities.converter</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-extension</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
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If you are using Maven below 3.3.1
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Copy the flex-maven-extension jar to your MAVEN_HOME/lib/ext directory
(Have to do a little more testing with this though ... the 3.3.1 approach
should work)
So you should be able to build the above project without having ANYTHING
related to flex installed by executing:
mvn install
I did change 2 minor things in the current sdk-converter though ... FDKs now
have three digit versions an no longer contain the build number ... so instead
of using 4.14.1.20150325 you just use 4.14.1 instead. Additionally now for the
flash sdk a "com.adobe.flash:framework:pom" is created in order to have all sdk
parts in sync.
Really glad I didn't release the converter the first time ;-)
Have Fun, looking forward for feedback
Chris
