No actually the mavenizer IS the complete magic. I decided not to put the new 
code into flexmojos, but add  an additional module to the mavenizer and work 
with an unmodified version of flexmojos :-)

Chris

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----- Reply message -----
Von: "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com>
An: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org>
Betreff: Re^10: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
Datum: Di., Apr. 21, 2015 00:53

Not sure I fully understand, but sounds great.  Does this mean there is no
mavenizer to be released by Apache Flex?

Thanks,
-Alex

On 4/20/15, 3:23 PM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:

>Ok ... so with my latest change, I was able to build Flexmojos without
>any Flex related artifacts in my local repo. It correctly downloaded
>flash and air as well as all of our released Flex SDKs and the entire
>test-suite passed without a single failure ... new SNAPSHOT uploaded by
>the way ;-)
>
>I really like this solution. First of all it's so simple (just copy one
>jar to your maven lib/ext and all of your Flex projects have their stuff
>installed automatically ... as soon as we release a new FDK or you want
>to target a new Flash or Air version (Only restriction is that we have to
>list it in our installer config file), all you have to do is change the
>dependency version to the new one and run a "mvn install" and it will
>automatically get the missing parts. And all of this without giving up on
>any of the maven features.
>
>With this in place I don't think we even need to release the FDK as maven
>artifacts.
>
>So I think we should experiment a little with this, fix any eventually
>found bugs/problems and release it some time soon.
>
>One thing I did notice, is that I have two implementations of download in
>the code ... the fast and the safe. I needed the safe one to download the
>fontkit libs. The fast is about 3 times faster than the safe one ...
>unfortunately I have noticed the fast being insanely slow in about 10% of
>the time. Eventually doing all with the safe version would be an option.
>
>Chris
>
>
>________________________________________
>Von: Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
>Gesendet: Montag, 20. April 2015 21:24
>An: dev@flex.apache.org
>Betreff: AW: AW: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>
>Ok I just fixed a little bug in the converter ...
>
>As I stripped the build number from the flex version, no rsl was copied
>to the maven repo. I just fixed that problem, now the rsls are correctly
>deployed to the output.
>
>Chris
>
>________________________________________
>Von: Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
>Gesendet: Montag, 20. April 2015 09:17
>An: dev@flex.apache.org
>Betreff: AW: AW: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>
>The reason why the conversion of a Flex SDK needs flash resources, is the
>fact that in the Flex SDK we don't provide all themes as swcs. I made the
>flex converter automatically compile any non swc themes to swc format in
>order to be able to use all themes equally. In order to compile, you need
>a playerglobal and that's not present in the binary distribution.
>Therefore the flex converter downloads the minimum version for this task
>only.
>
>Regarding the FM error. Did you compile with "-X" option to show
>stacktraces? Would be helpful as the log doesn't really show much usefull
>information. One thing I could immagine: The failling project ... does
>this use font encoding? This is no longer part of the "compiler"
>artifact. If your module needs font encoding and font embeding, you need
>to add an additional plugin dependency to com.adobe:fontkit:1.0:pom
>
>Chris
>
>
>________________________________________
>Von: Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>
>Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. April 2015 20:40
>An: dev@flex.apache.org
>Betreff: RE: AW: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>
>Hey Chris,
>
>Yep, was that, thanks !
>
>The project was compiling nicely with FM 7.0.1, SDK 4.14, I changed it to
>SDK 4.13.0 and FM 7.1.0-SNAPSHOT to verify.
>
>1- I noticed you have a dependency to flash player 10.2, is this for the
>minimum version in case it is not specify ?
>2- I removed the FM dependency of flexmojos-threadlocaltoolkit-wrapper to
>fonkit which is not in the compiler pom anymore and while it compiles
>some projects it fails on others with something not really helpful
>https://paste.apache.org/nIkS
>
>Does it mean something for you ?
>
>Frédéric THOMAS
>
>> From: christofer.d...@c-ware.de
>> To: dev@flex.apache.org
>> Subject: AW: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:21:47 +0000
>>
>> Yup ... I know exactly why you are getting this cause I had to figgure
>>that out too :-)
>> Maven 3.3 has higher requirements for the Java Version ... you need at
>>least a Java 1.7 VM
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Frédéric THOMAS [mailto:webdoubl...@hotmail.com]
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. April 2015 18:46
>> An: dev@flex.apache.org
>> Betreff: RE: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Just came back home and was trying FM 7.1.0-SNAPSHOT, I droped
>>flex-maven-extension.jar into the lib/ext folder along with the
>>extensions.xml of my fresh maven 3.3.1 (I still was in 3.0.5) and got
>>this even though after I removed the extensions.xml:
>>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError:
>>org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
>>
>> Any clue ?
>>
>> Frédéric THOMAS
>>
>> > From: christofer.d...@c-ware.de
>> > To: dev@flex.apache.org
>> > Subject: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>> > Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 11:50:07 +0000
>> >
>> > Ok ... so maven and it's classloading can be a PITA ;-)
>> >
>> > But the latest version now works with all Maven versions from 3.1.1
>>up to 3.3.1.
>> > So if you copy the fat jar from
>> >
>>flex-utils/mavenizer/maven-extension/target/flex-maven-extension-1.0.0.ja
>>r to MAVEN_HOME/lib/ext and try to build a Flex project with Flexmojos,
>>the magic will kick in instantly.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately my last changes seem to have broken the ability to
>>include the extension using the ".mvn/extensions.xml" mechanism. I'll
>>fix that as soon as possible.
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> > Von: Christofer Dutz [mailto:christofer.d...@c-ware.de]
>> > Gesendet: Samstag, 18. April 2015 18:18
>> > An: dev@flex.apache.org
>> > Betreff: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>> >
>> > Ok ... today I started testing the extension with older Maven versions
>> > and with the extension installed in MAVEN_HOME/lib/ext instead of
>> > having it referenced from ".mvn/extension.xml" and it seems I have to
>> > put a little more work into this option. But feel free to test it with
>> > 3.3.1 :-)
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > ________________________________________
>> > Von: Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
>> > Gesendet: Samstag, 18. April 2015 02:32
>> > An: dev@flex.apache.org
>> > Betreff: AW: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>> >
>> > Snapshot should be available. At least I deployed it a few hours ago
>> > :-)
>> >
>> > Gesendet mit meinem HTC
>> >
>> > ----- Reply message -----
>> > Von: "Frédéric THOMAS" <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>
>> > An: "dev@flex.apache.org" <dev@flex.apache.org>
>> > Betreff: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>> > Datum: Fr., Apr. 17, 2015 20:56
>> >
>> > Hi Chris,
>> >
>> > Seems cool, do you have a snapshot ?
>> > I will have more time on Sunday to continue the converter test and
>>could be a good opportunity to try this version too.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Frédéric THOMAS
>> >
>> > > From: christofer.d...@c-ware.de
>> > > To: dev@flex.apache.org
>> > > Subject: Flex SDK Converter Maven Extension available
>> > > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:37:54 +0000
>> > >
>> > > 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.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > If you are using Maven 3.3.1 or above (Yeah ... not too much above
>>that yet ;-):
>> > >
>> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > - 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>
>> > >
>> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > If you are using Maven below 3.3.1
>> > >
>> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > 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
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
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