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by Carlos Sanchez-4 :: Rate this Message:

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I like more the nested approach, it allows you to grow the number of
frameworks easier.

About the war resources i think you should be able to pack them in a
jar in a separate project and then  depend on it in the war projects,
uncompressing it with maybe the antrun plugin before making the war

On 7/19/06, Matt Raible <mraible@...> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm starting to convert AppFuse to be a Maven 2 project, and
> (hopefully) use Maven 2's archetype system to allow users to create
> new projects.
>
> Initially, I'm thinking of a directory structure that contains many
> different modules, maybe something like this:
>
> hibernate
> ibatis
> core (services and common dao/web/model classes, could also be named service)
> jsf
> tapestry
> struts-1
> struts-2
> springmvc (or spring-mvc)
>
> I'm also open to allowing the dao and web tiers to be nested, so they
> can be built and tested together:
>
> data
>    hibernate
>    ibatis
> core
> web
>    jsf
>    tapestry
>    etc.
>
> Which is a better way to structure things in our source control
> repository?  For the end user, hopefully it won't matter because
> they'll only have a few AppFuse dependencies in their pom.xml (i.e.
> appfuse-hibernate + appfuse-struts).  We can hopefully prompt them for
> a multi-module project or a single-module project, and create the
> directory structure appropriately.
>
> Currently, AppFuse uses Ant to "install" the various modules.  This is
> a pain because it requires parsing and replacing XML.  The good thing
> about it is it reduces duplication.  With Maven and separate modules,
> it seems like duplication might be a necessary evil.  For example,
> there are many common CSS/JavaScript files between the web framework
> implementations.  There's no way to copy these into each option's WAR
> at build-time is there?  The easiest way to solve this might be
> svn:externals AFAIK.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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