Re: Is it possible to make pom.xml simpler?

>After seeing what the Spring Developers have done to simplify Spring
>context files, I can't help but think the same thing is possible for
>Maven 2's pom.xml.  Is it possible to add namespaces and make
>something like the following possible?
>
>Before:
>
>    <dependency>
>      <groupId>springframework</groupId>
>      <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
>      <version>1.2.6</version>
>    </dependency>
>
>After:
>
><dep:artifact name="org/springframework/spring" version="1.2.6"/>
>
>Or just allow attributes to make things a bit cleaner?
>
><dependency groupId="org.springframework" artifactId="spring" version="1.2.6"/>
>
>Allowing 1 line instead of 5-6 lines per dependency would allow me to
>cut my dependencies listing from 140 lines of XML to 37 lines.  When
>the Spring guys allows a couple of elements as attributes (<ref> and
><value>) - it made writing Spring context files *much* easier.
>
>Here's an example of my simplified version:
>
>  <dependencies>
>    <dependency groupId="cargo" artifactId="cargo" version="0.6" scope="test"/>
>    <dependency groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang" version="2.0"/>
>    <dependency groupId="commons-logging" artifactId="commons-logging"
>version="1.0.4"/>
>    <dependency groupId="displaytag" artifactId="displaytag"
>version="1.0" scope="runtime">
>      <exclusions>
>        <exclusion artifactId="xalan" groupId="xalan"/>
>      </exclusions>
>    </dependency>
>    <dependency groupId="uk.ltd.getahead" artifactId="dwr"
>version="1.0" scope="runtime"/>
>    <dependency groupId="org.hibernate" artifactId="hibernate" version="3.0.5">
>      <exclusions>
>        <exclusion artifactId="jta" groupId="javax.transaction"/>
>      </exclusions>
>    </dependency>
>    <dependency groupId="geronimo-spec" artifactId="geronimo-spec-jta"
>version="1.0.1B-rc4"/>
>    <dependency groupId="jmock" artifactId="jmock" version="1.0.1"
>scope="test"/>
>    <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="3.8.1"
>scope="test"/>
>    <dependency groupId="jwebunit" artifactId="jwebunit" version="1.2"
>scope="test"/>
>    <dependency groupId="httpunit" artifactId="httpunit" version="1.6"
>scope="test">
>      <exclusions>
>        <exclusion artifactId="js" groupId="rhino"/>
>      </exclusions>
>    </dependency>
>    <dependency groupId="log4j" artifactId="log4j" version="1.2.11"/>
>    <dependency groupId="postgresql" artifactId="postgresql"
>version="8.1-404.jdbc3"/>
>    <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="servlet-api"
>version="2.4" scope="provided"/>
>    <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="jstl"
>version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/>
>    <dependency groupId="taglibs" artifactId="standard"
>version="1.1.2" scope="runtime"/>
>    <dependency groupId="opensymphony" artifactId="sitemesh"
>version="2.2.1" scope="runtime"/>
>    <dependency groupId="springmodules"
>artifactId="springmodules-validator" version="0.1" scope="runtime"/>
>    <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring" version="1.2.6"/>
>    <dependency groupId="springframework" artifactId="spring-mock"
>version="1.2.6" scope="test">
>      <exclusions>
>        <exclusion artifactId="spring-jdbc" groupId="springframework"/>
>        <exclusion artifactId="spring-web" groupId="springframework"/>
>      </exclusions>
>    </dependency>
>  </dependencies>
>
>Of course, Ivy's syntax is even simpler, so maybe that'll provide some
>motivation. ;-)
>
>    <dependencies>
>        <dependency org="apache" name="commons-lang" rev="2.0" />
>        <dependency org="apache" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" />
>    </dependencies>
>
>Matt
>
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