Hi,
I am forwarding this message to Maven Developer List.
Before getting to any development, I'd like to know more about planned
Maven4 improvements in the area of toolchains.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mikko Koivunalho
On 02/02/2025 19:28, Tamás Cservenák wrote:
Howdy,
TBH, I never understood why toolchains are not ALWAYS used
with one (always) available toolchain, the Java that runs Maven
itself, so this would be your fallback.
Re enforcer, yes, probably we need new rules that would behave
as you describe.
Hence, yes, this would be a good direction.
OTOH, for Maven4 we do have some improvements in this area,
like auto discovery, so any contribution is welcome!
Thanks
T
On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM Mikko Johannes Koivunalho
<mikko.koivuna...@iki.fi> wrote:
Hi,
I work with many Maven projects which require building with different
JDKs: Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, and so on. I have all these installed
side by side in my build machine.
Maven Toolchains plugin is very helpful because it prevents me from
being forced to reconfigure environment variable JAVA_HOME when I move
between Maven projects.
However, for those who only use one of those projects, configuring the
toolchains and JDKs is too complicated. They have their Java already
configured to use the correct JDK.
It would be convenient if Maven Toolchains plugin had a fallback mode:
when the file .m2/toolchains.xml is not present, i.e. the toolchains are
not configured, Maven Toolchains plugin would simply fall back to use
the same Java as Maven itself uses.
Maven Toolchains plugin could have a setting to allow the fallback. By
default, the fallback would not be allowed. This is the behavior now.
Even when using toolchains, I am also using Maven Enforcer rule
RequireJavaVersion to limit the range of usable Java versions. This rule
only tracks the version of the Java runtime Maven itself is using so it
is not compatible with Maven Toolschains.
To work with Maven Toolchains plugin and remain backwards compatible,
Maven Enforcer would need a new rule, maybe
"RequireJDKVersion", "RequireToolchainJavaVersion" or
"RequireJavaCompilerVersion". It would also have to work with the
fallback mode as described above.
Would the above be the right direction to develop Maven Toolchains?
Thanks for all comments.
Sincerely,
Mikko Koivunalho
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