Until very recently, the spring starter project wizard had a dropdown to select between maven & gradle. This is now missing and projects initialise with maven by default.
Can someone enlighten me as to why it's gone, and if there is any other automated way of initiating gradle based spring projects in STS/eclipse. It's not like I can't knock up my own gradle script, but I'm lazy like that.
Thanks
Can someone enlighten me as to why it's gone...
After some investigation I discovered that a recent change in the initializr app (http://start.spring.io) is responsible. The names for the import options in the webservice have been changed and they no longer match those used in the STS import wizard.
The import wizard ignores 'unknown' types (because it doesn't know how to import them). This causes the list of valid type options to become empty and so it is no longer shown by the STS wizard.
See https://github.com/spring-io/initializr/issues/42
I expect the problem to be fixed quickly (will update this answer when its fixed).
Update: The problematic changes to start.spring.io app have been reverted and the option should now work again in the STS wizard.
... and if there is any other automated way of initiating gradle based spring projects in STS/eclipse.
Yes, there is another thing you can use in the mean time. The "Import Getting Started Content" wizard. The short spring.io guides come in Maven and Gradle flavor. So importing one of those might be a good starting point.
I'm setting up a build system for a Flash Builder 4 (Flex 4) based project; and I'm struggling to get a setup that compiles in the IDE the same as it does from the command line on the build server.
I come from a C# background; and my expectation is that I'll be able to create a "solution" with a collection of "projects" that I can compile from the IDE, or from the command line on the build server.
The best I've managed sofar is 2 separate build "scripts", a custom ant script for the build server, and the default Flash Builder IDE config based on a workspace; but this is making my DRY daemons jump around in fury.
Please can someone point me in the right direction :)
If you use Maven and flex-mojos for your command line builds, then you can use the flexbuilder mojo to generate the Eclipse project files from your Maven build scripts. I'm sure there are some rough edges with the process, but at least it's DRY.
You might also check out IntelliJ IDEA. It can open the Maven project directly, and will create the Flex facets and configuration from the Maven build script. It will auto-detect when the pom.xml file changes, and prompt for re-import (which is nice). You can enable auto-import, too. The down side is that it doesn't have the profiler or nice GUI editor that Flash Builder has.
I am new to Netbeans. I am wondering if someone can help me with project setup in netbeans. I am moving half million lines of Java code from a different IDE to Netbeans. I was able to get the code build and run in Netbeans easily. I have a project with many folders with dependencies among those folders. They have to be built in specific order. This is to enforce layering so that a module in lower layer cannot call into higher layers. I couldn't get that configured in Netbeans. Below is how my project looks like
project/
libA/
libB/
libC/
libD/
libE/
appA/
...
I have one project that builds all the libs and appA. The project build xml is stored under project/ folder. But the libs have dependencies among them. libB should be built after libA. libC after libA. libE depends on libD and libB etc.
I tried to change the order of source folders for libs in project properties. That didn't seem to make any difference. Even if I move libA after libB, it was building everything fine. I expected it to fail because libA didn't build yet.
Iam lost. Just wondering what the trick is to enforce this kind of dependencies. I created my project using "Java project using existing sources" wizard.
I appreciate your help
Thanks
Video guy.
Even though it would be a pain, you could just write your own ant build script and then just have Netbeans use that.
Basically:
write the custom ant build file
install the Ant plugin
create an Ant build file
right click the build file
run the selected target.
This would enable you to enforce whatever you need to do, but, if Netbeans is figuring out the correct order then why not just use it.
Does something break when you just compile and run in Netbeans?
Well! Lets say a team member added piece of code in lower level package that calls into higher layer code. It should fail because it breaks the layering. Because Netbeans seem to compile all the files in one javac invocation, the build compiles just fine. I want Netbeans to break the build in this case.
Writing my own ant script is another way of enforcing it. The whole point in using an IDE is to save yourself from writing your own make files (or ant scripts). This is something any IDE was able to accomplish 10 years back out of the box. I am wondering if I am missing something here.
Thanks
Video Guy
What do I want to achieve?
We are currently working on a PHP project that uses Drupal.
I desperately want to learn how to create a One-step build for the whole project.
Preferably by using something new (for me) that seems very powerful: Maven
Basically I want to automate the following process:
Checkout Drupal from the official CVS repository.
Checkout official 3rd party modules from their respective CVS repositories.
Checkout our custom modules from our mercurial repository.
Copy/move all the modules to the appropriate directory within Drupal.
Checkout and install our custom theme.
Add a custom drupal installation profile.
Create a new MySQL database schema.
If possible, automate the drupal db connection setup.
In the future I would like to run this build on a Hudson (or any other) continues integration server.
Why Maven? (why not Ant or Phing?)
Other than the desire to learn something new (I have used Ant before) I think the dependency management of Maven might work well for the drupal modules.
Do you think this is enough reason to use Maven, even though Maven was not originally intended for PHP projects? I know Ant was not originally used for PHP either, but there are far more examples of people using Ant and PHP together.
BTW I think I will switch to Ant if I can't get Maven to work soon. The procedural style of Ant is just easier for me to understand.
What do I have so far?
I have a pom.xml file, that uses the SCM plugin, to checkout the drupal source.
When I run:
mvn scm:checkout
the source is checked out into a new directory:
target/checkout
When I try:
mvn scm:bootstrap
it complains about the install goal not being defined.
Here is the pom.xml:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>drupal</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scm-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<configuration>
<username>anonymous</username>
<password>anonymous</password>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<scm>
<connection>scm:cvs:pserver:cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal:drupal</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:cvs:pserver:cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal:drupal</developerConnection>
<tag>DRUPAL-6-12</tag>
<url>http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/drupal/?pathrev=DRUPAL-6</url>
</scm>
</project>
Finally, what are my questions?
Is Maven the wrong tool for this?
If no,
How would you do this?
Is it the scm:bootstrap goal that I should be using?
What is the Maven way of moving directories around on the file system?
Should the install goal be used to move the modules into the drupal directory?
Currently all our custom modules are in one mercurial repository. Is it possible to create a pom.xml and checkout each module individually?
Any general advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time!
I'm 98% certain that what you really need is Drush Make, which can recursively build Drupal projects, provided they provide their own .make file listing their dependencies. It can download from multiple SCMs, web, patch files, and you can control where they get downloaded. It also support external libs, such as wysiwyg, PHP files, or JS libraries.
See the Open Atrium make file for a sample of what it can do.
Definitely you're not using Maven, here some thoughts:
Maven is a Java build tool and dependency management software with a well-defined lifecycle which goes like this: validate, compile, test, package, integration-test, verify, install, deploy. What you are using is the scm plugin which can stick to any of the phases defined here and perform some actions but unless you make complicated changes in the POM (I haven't heard of anyone doing this) the lifecycle will continue being executed.
Maven also is designed to package JARs, WARs and with the use of some plugins EARs, SARs, RARs (not that RARs) and some other files; you might have to program a new plugin to get the type of packages you expect or use the assembly plugin which will make things more complicated.
Because of the previous points, there is no command for Maven to move the files into an specific directory (not a native one) and you shouldn't invoke install phase to copy the files to any other location than the local repository. What you're doing is like taking a laundry machine and converting it into a blender.
After reading what you want to do with your project I'd suggest you to create a script (shell script or batch script depending on your OS) for doing the job. SVN and CVS has command line tools which can be invoked from inside your build scripts. I guess you opted for Maven, among other reasons, because Hudson and many other Continuous Integration software are well integrated with it but you can use them with scripts too.
If you are comfortable using Ant and you consider using it will ease the building time of your app I think is not as bad ;) (I haven't used Ant for other purposes than Java projects)
The Drush 'module' is a great tool for scripting out things in Drupal. But, beyond that, I think your approach of doing CVS checkouts for each 'build' is a little off base - unless you have -really- good reasons to have every chunk of the project in a separate repository, your best bet is to have fixed checkouts of Drupal core & contributed modules committed to your project's repository. Not only does this take out a dependency on a network connection and the stability of an external server but it allows you to have local modifications of the contributed modules (unfortunately, you're probably going to end up doing this somewhere down the line).
Once you take out the requirement to do checkouts from multiple repositories, you'll probably notice that your task becomes -much- easier, leaving you with some simple MySQL manipulation and writing out a settings.php.
The project http://www.php-maven.org know comes with a build plugin enabling the php world to maven (or the maven world for php projects). Version 2 snapshot can be found in our google groups (news thread available at https://groups.google.com/group/maven-for-php/t/e055e49c89ccb8c5?hl=de).
However this gives you a full control over the project and respects the default maven lifecycle so that the maven commands:
mvn clean
mvn package
mvn deploy
mvn site
will work correctly.
Drupal support may be enabled in version 2.1 where we are focused on frameworks (zend, flow3...) and project types (web, cli, libs...). It would be to much to clearify wha maven is and how it can help you during php development. As Vistor Hugo stated on his early comment Mavens benefits are not only to execute a specific command manually but to embed the whole project structure and the whole project lifecycle via maven.
Since the most php guys did not yet have contact to java and especially maven we are creating tutorials so that everyone has a fairly simple entry in the maven world.
I love maven, although I think it is very java specific as mentioned above.
I had success to handle repeable task with phing. I used in a Zend project to prepare a build or just fasten the normal repetable tasks (eg. clean up db, load db dump).
Phing won't provide you complete lifecycle management as maven, but you can write yourself by hand. You can embed shell script commands to build.xml so you can use everything that you would use in a normal shell script.
I prefer phing over normal shell script because it can handle dependent targets, so if your build.xml contains well designed targets that depend each other, you'll get very useful chains to achive specified goals.
It works for me.
Another great tool for drupal is drush which makes drupal administration scriptable. You can do lots of drupal specific things from console. I think you can call drush commands from phing scripts.
I am trying to get the flex mojos maven compiler to run my projects.
Anyone with feedback on the below information is appreciated.
I am using this configuration for the maven compiler plugin and for
some reason every time I run the clean install on my SWF project I
still see the following in the compile step for the app.
info.rvin.mojo
flex-compiler-mojo
true
true
-compiler.accessible=false
-compiler.actionscript-file-encoding UTF-8
-compiler.allow-source-path-overlap=false
-compiler.as3=true
-compiler.debug=false
That means I can not connect to my app via the Flex Builder's debug
tool. Any thoughts on how I should properly configure the plugin in
the pom.xml?
Thanks!
adam, we're just starting to build out the chapter on flexmojos in Maven: The Definitive Guide. For starters, use the new plugin groupId, artifactId that is listed in that chapter. velo moved the flexmojos project over to the Sonatype Forge a few months ago, and we're just getting the 3.0 release out.
To anyone out there reading this: remember Maven is a build tool; it only (typically) executes (parts of) your code as a consequence of executing the tests you've implemented.