SwingX going Maven ... maybe

 I've just committed mavenized version of swingx under the swingx-r3734-mavenized branch. If you know nothing about maven here's the basic: download and install (unzip) maven from http://maven.apache.org you should not need to configure anything apart from geting maven/bin on your path so you can run maven to build swingx you need to run "mvn install" or "mvn clean install" to skip the tests run the above with "-Dmaven.test.skip=true" to produce html report for the test run "mvn surefire-report:report" instead to open the project in IDE you should be able to import it directly with NetBeans, and you might need m2eclipse plugin for eclipse the source location changed a bit (swingx-core/src/main/java, swingx-core/src/test/java, swingx-beaninfo/src/main/java) java and non java project files are now separated (.../java vs. .../resources) after running the build, jar files can be found in the "target" directory of each module I was under the impression that we semi agreed to move the project to maven based build while ago, but in case it was just in my head here are few pros: cleaner structure more plugins and better automation of library management simpler releases (and upload to central repository) possibility to provide release candidate builds and promote those when passing the community vote (with nexus) open ways to modularization and intra project dependenc...

Date: July, 27 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/rah003/archive/2010/07/26/swingx-going-maven-maybe

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