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

> Hi Matt!
> A big +1 from me. I've been discussing this w/ John, Jason, et al. A push
> towards simplifying/shortening the XML would be a big help.
> Cheers,
> -- Chris
>
> On 12/15/05, John Casey <jdcasey1779@...> wrote:
>  
>> Actually, an even better thing to do would be to participate in the
>> design for 2.1. The page for some of this discussion is at:
>>
>> http://docs.codehaus.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=32108
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>>
>> Allan Ramirez wrote:
>>    
>>> Please file a jira issue for this http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG
>>>
>>> -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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