Oeps, it seems I stepped on some to toes, sorry guys
... and that I am spoiled ;-)
A different look gives the following results:
javascript-maven-plugin
19 open issues/ total unknown (to me)
mailing list: (archive can't be found)
commiters: 4 (olamy,ndeloof,bentman,trygvis)
# commits in 2009: 16 (svn log | grep " 2009-" | wc -l)
maven jstools plugin:
Bugs
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=994821&group_id=205730&func=browse>
- 1 open/2 total
Feature Requests
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=994824&group_id=205730&func=browse>
- 1 open/1 total
Patches
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=994823&group_id=205730&func=browse>
- 0 open/0 total
Support Requests
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=994822&group_id=205730&func=browse>
- 0 open/0 total
mailing list (users): 6 messages over 2 years
commiters: not sure, my guess is only 1 (mbatsis)
# commits in 2009: 0? (I have no cvs client)
maven-js-plugin
Bugs
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=972557&group_id=200202&func=browse>
- 0 open/2 total
Feature Requests
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=972560&group_id=200202&func=browse>
- 0 open/4 total
Patches
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=972559&group_id=200202&func=browse>
- 0 open/0 total
Support Requests
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=972558&group_id=200202&func=browse>
- 0 open/1 total
mailing list (dev): 14 messages over 3 years
commiters: 1 (mvaaltemus)
# commits in 2009: 9 (svn log | grep " 2009-" | wc -l)
With these figures javascript-maven-plugin seems the most active one to me.
A quick comparison of features gives:
javascript-maven maven-jstools maven-js
js packaging x x -
dep. mgnt compile-time runtime -
compress x - x
jsunit x - -
jsdoc x x -
jslint x x -
reporting x x -
Is this a proper feature comparison?
Lack of users has IMHO multiple causes:
1) Javascript source management is an afterthough on many project. They
include it as resources in their WAR project. (I've seen the mess ;-)
2) The road for javascript dependency management is not as clear as for
java.
3) Lack of javascript dependencies in the maven repositories (search for
javascript gives 9-16 results [1], [2] and [3])
Regards,
Minto 'misl' van der Sluis
[1] http://search.mvnsearch.org/query.action?cat=jar&q=javascript
[2] http://javarepo.xoocode.org/search?q=javascript
[3] http://mvnrepository.com/search.html?query=javascript
PS. David, GWT is not an option for existing javascript files is it?
PS. Nicolas, 19 open issues in Jira, so there is some community feedback
for your project.
Minto van der Sluis schreef:
Hi Folks,
What's the best way to handle javascript using Maven? I have searched
the ML archive but it seems all projects have sort of died
I have looked at javascript-maven-pluging [1]. But:
- svn activity is near to none for the last year.
- sources and web-site seem to be out of sync.
- site contains a few dead links ()
- dedicated mailing list archive seem to have disappeared
Jstools plugin does not seems to be in a much better shape.
- last svn activity is 19 months ago.
- less functionality than javascript-maven-plugin
Same goes for the maven-js-plugin [3] :
- functionality limited to compression
- the still some very limited svn activity,
Is there a better way to work with javascript files, or have I been
spoiled by the maven java functionality?
Regards,
Minto 'misl' van der Sluis
[1] http://mojo.codehaus.org/javascript-maven-tools
[2] http://www.dev.abiss.gr/mvn-jstools
[3] http://ossi.mobilvox.com/maven-js-plugin
BTW is not my intention to insult anyone. I really do appreciate all
effort people have put into this, but my impression is javascript
support has been scattered and it seems sort of aborted or at least
neglected :-(
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