In my team we are looking into - perhaps - moving our Flex app build to Maven, from ant. Is the information at [1] up to date for how we can achieve this? Thanks.
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Building+Flex+applications+with+Maven On 20 April 2015 at 21:24, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > 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.jar >> > 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 >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> >
