Re: need to stop maven from looking for updates

2008-08-18 Thread Tommy Knowlton
try using the -o (offline mode) option for the mvn command. Hope that helps. -- TK On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:52 PM, goutham wrote: Hello Good Evening, I have a small but seriously irritating problem here :) Whenever i run a maven command such as mvn install or mvn site, it begins by looking u

Re: [ANN] Maven archetype plugin 1.0-alpha-6 released

2007-08-29 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Here's a (not-so-funny?) anecdote... I have been using Maven in the shop that pays my salary, for better than 8 months now. Just today, my friend who works for another company close by, he asked me "have you ever used Maven?" I explained how Maven has greatly helped with my company's softwa

Re: provided dependencies

2007-08-24 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I can't download and install this plugin using the usual mvn commands (can't remember what they are)? - Original Message ---- From: Tommy Knowlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Maven Users List Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 4:03:26 PM Subject: Re: provided dependencies Wayne

Re: provided dependencies

2007-08-24 Thread Tommy Knowlton
s transitively provided, so doesn't that mean it still should not be copied to WEB-INF\lib? - Original Message From: Tommy Knowlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Maven Users List Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2007 1:29:38 PM Subject: Re: provided dependencies my guess would be that b

Re: provided dependencies

2007-08-24 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Scope" section of this page: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to- dependency-mechanism.html it seems to say that a provided dependency is transitively provided, so doesn't that mean it still should not be copied to WEB- INF\lib? - Original Message ---

Re: provided dependencies

2007-08-24 Thread Tommy Knowlton
my guess would be that both modules depend transitively on the javax.servlet in the runtime scope. but, since guessing is not likely to be very helpful, may I recommend the maven-dependency-plugin, which can give you a report that may help you to locate the actual dependency chain that ends

Re: [m2] Assembly dependencySet issue

2007-07-29 Thread Tommy Knowlton
The dependencySet will silently fail to include an artifact that is not actually in the list of pom.xml . I believe the option in the assembly descriptor would have alerted you to the problem, causing the assembly execution to fail instead of silently failing to include the artifact into t

Re: Checking for latest versions from remote repositories?

2007-07-18 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I'm interested in the answer to this as well. At one time, I became convinced (by Maven documentation, or my misunderstanding thereof) that using version ranges, like [1.0.0,) would be useful in this manner, but as it turns out, most Maven plugins don't appear to honor ranges (or at least, d

Re: Exclude some classes when package a jar.

2007-07-11 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I have a class that is a specialized implementation of a given interface, and this specialized implementation cannot be distributed to all customers. I wasn't able to find a way to exclude the class from the jar, but I was able to exclude it from compilation, by reflectively loading it if i

Re: Understanding SNAPSHOT dependencies

2007-04-06 Thread Tommy Knowlton
e solution! Thanks, -- Tommy On 4/6/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try extracting all your dependencies (with versions) and move them into a section in a shared parent pom. Then remove the nodes specified in the dependencies in all the children poms. Wayne On 4/6/07, Tom

Understanding SNAPSHOT dependencies

2007-04-06 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Hello, My project team has got on the order of 30 projects that contribute to a single webapp. Most of the projects produce jar artifacts, that go into the webapp's WEB-INF/lib. The problem I'm having is inconsistency with how Maven resolves (and names) versioned artifacts... Within WEB-INF/lib,

How can I insert a (non-default?) lifecycle phase?

2007-04-05 Thread Tommy Knowlton
testing: that workaround is a kludge. Can anybody explain how I can modify the lifecycle to add a "custom" lifecycle phase? My is only binding a few lifecycle phases as it is, but none of the existing (default lifecycle) phase names means the same thing as what I want done. Thanks, -

Re: assembly question

2007-03-23 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I'm not positive, but I believe where you said you should say . I haven't tried this in a POM of my own, but I've been using the maven-assembly-plugin alot lately, and I think you've got it exactly right, modulo that one change. HTH -- Tommy On 3/23/07, EJ Ciramella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: How to disable Super POM

2007-03-22 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I solved this problem as follows: central Maven Repository Switchboard default http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 false false central Maven Plugin Repository http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 default false

How to get custom artifact's dependencies on dependent's classpath?

2007-03-22 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I'm trying to use indirection again to implement "Don't Repeat Yourself" but I'm stuck and need some expert help. I have created a custom artifact type, and now I'm trying to figure out how to get it to behave "a little more" like the stock jar artifact type. A concrete example of the problem is

Snapshot overload

2007-03-19 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Hello, My dev team has been using Maven2 full-time for about 2 months now, and we're starting to notice a problem that we hadn't really considered until now. I don't know a "safe" way to deal with it, but I'm getting very close to having to do something that might be "unsafe". The issue is that

Custom artifact type

2007-03-19 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Hello, I'm trying to create an "installer" artifact type, and then depend on the installer's dependencies in other projects. The transitive dependencies aren't being exposed in the dependent project. A concrete example of what's currently Not Working for me is this: I want to provide a "jdbc-dr

Re: Implementing Master Build using Maven2

2007-03-16 Thread Tommy Knowlton
On 3/14/07, Thorsten Heit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Pablo, > maybe I forgot to mention that projectA, projectB and projectC aren´t > children of projectD. They are projects located in whatever location in my > svn repository. > > What I'm trying to achieve is that a Maven2 project could ret

Trying to "reuse" the maven-assembly-plugin

2007-03-16 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Hello, I'm trying to build "installer" (by which I mean, a tarball inside of which is an install.sh as well as whatever other things I decide to put in) distributions for some of my maven projects. In some cases, I want to make the installer the only "artifact" of the build. Problem is, there's

Re: Install/Deploy an artifact with classifier

2007-02-28 Thread Tommy Knowlton
ve approach is going to be difficult to use for snapshot deploys - unless deploy-file munges the artifact name to add timestamp when the version has '-SNAPSHOT'. Even if that works, it still breaks e.g., Continuum. Cheers, Jon Tommy Knowlton wrote: > I'm trying to produce a POM for bui

Install/Deploy an artifact with classifier

2007-02-28 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I'm trying to produce a POM for building several different artifacts from the same sources. In the section, I have accomplished 1) configuring the build tools to do something different for each profile 2) activating the profiles 3) give the profile's artifact a unique name using classifier confi

Re: Assembly plugin bug?

2007-02-26 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Yes, that works. And I also verified that the description of the xml on the assembly descriptor web page incorrectly indicates that tag is a child of . (I didn't think I had hallucinated that...) Thanks again. On 2/26/07, Tommy Knowlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Jo. I

Re: Assembly plugin bug?

2007-02-26 Thread Tommy Knowlton
zip ${basedir} *.sh install.sh install.sh / true Cheers Jo On 2/26/07, Tommy Knowlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to use the maven-assembly-plugin to build a zip that > conta

Assembly plugin bug?

2007-02-26 Thread Tommy Knowlton
I'm trying to use the maven-assembly-plugin to build a zip that contains an install.sh at the top level, along with some arbitrary other artifacts. I want the install.sh source to be filtered so that certain build-time variables will be run-time literals. I've tried to compose an assembly descri

Re: POM inheritance behaving unexpectedly

2007-02-08 Thread Tommy Knowlton
On 2/7/07, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Tommy, Tommy Knowlton wrote on Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:30 AM: > On 2/7/07, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tommy Knowlton wrote on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:19 PM: >> >>> Is

Re: POM inheritance behaving unexpectedly

2007-02-07 Thread Tommy Knowlton
On 2/7/07, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tommy Knowlton wrote on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:19 PM: > Is this a bug in the code that resolves ${project} references? No, this is a feature (that fails miserably when the directory in your repository does not match the a

POM inheritance behaving unexpectedly

2007-02-06 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Hello, I've got a parent POM that declares e.g., … http://javabuild2.mycompany.com/${project.artifactId} (in other words, top-level configuration that varies by the project that has declared this parent). Problem is, when I look at the effective POM (mvn help:effective-pom), it shows up as

Re: Restricting maven's dependency search

2007-01-13 Thread Tommy Knowlton
Maybe I wasn't thinking about this problem the right way. It turns out that when I override the Super POM's "central" repository entry using my project's POM, with false for both and , maven2 exhibits the desired behavior. The build now (correctly) fails for artifacts that would have been obtai