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

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> -allan
>
> Matt Raible wrote:
>
>> 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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