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Maven2 for building extensions

mindthegab — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:36:08 GMT

Hi all,I'm working on a pretty big project of enterprise process reengineering in which the selected target platform is Alfresco.As we'll be probably migrating lots of applications (>200) which will simply become Alfresco webclient extensions (or custom webclients build), and as we are going to d

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

mindthegab — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:49:21 GMT

BTW guys,
I'm moving on on the task and I also opened an Alfresco Forge project, in which we'll gather all our efforts:

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/m2alfresco/

This means that sometime soon there will (hopefully) be archetypes for building Alfresco extensions.

Any help or feedback is kindly appreciated, of course

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

rdanner — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:58:52 GMT

BTW guys,
I'm moving on on the task and I also opened an Alfresco Forge project, in which we'll gather all our efforts:

http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/m2alfresco/

This means that sometime soon there will (hopefully) be archetypes for building Alfresco extensions.

Any help or feedback is kindly appreciated, of course

We recently moved all our builds to maven2 – it was horrible. but now that it's done I'm glad we did it.

If Alfresco had a Maven2 architype what would it be different than the standard library and web app architypes? Do you think that architypes increase the barrier to entry by upping the learning curve? My experience is that one of the drawbacks to maven is that it has a higher learning curve than ant. Also.. the eclipse plugin – less than great. I appreciate the effort people are woking on it, but it really needs a lot of work.

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

jdbrown — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:02:41 GMT

Gabriele, I am currently experimenting with the M2Alfresco forge project for building enterprise extensions. Ran into an error while trying to do a manual package for the local environment. The error occurs while assembling the WAR. It seems to expect that my Extension will have a web.xml file to overwrite the actual web.xml. In my case, I have no need to do that so do not have a web.xml file in the Extension itself.

I ran the command: mvn clean package -e

Here is the error:
Error assembling WAR: Deployment descriptor: /apps/My-AlfrescoExt/target/alfresco/WEB-INF/web.xml does not exist.

[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Error assembling WAR: Deployment descriptor: /apps/My-AlfrescoExt/target/alfresco/WEB-INF/web.xml does not exist.
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:564)

Maybe I am missing something simple?

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

jdbrown — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:42:14 GMT

Gabriele, I am currently experimenting with the M2Alfresco forge project for building enterprise extensions. Ran into an error while trying to do a manual package for the local environment. The error occurs while assembling the WAR. It seems to expect that my Extension will have a web.xml file to overwrite the actual web.xml. In my case, I have no need to do that so do not have a web.xml file in the Extension itself.

I ran the command: mvn clean package -e

Here is the error:
Error assembling WAR: Deployment descriptor: /apps/My-AlfrescoExt/target/alfresco/WEB-INF/web.xml does not exist.

[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Error assembling WAR: Deployment descriptor: /apps/My-AlfrescoExt/target/alfresco/WEB-INF/web.xml does not exist.
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:564)

Maybe I am missing something simple?

Disregard - this was caused by an issue in how I packaged the enterprise repo.

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

mindthegab — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:29:11 GMT

We've releaed a full Alfresco application lifecycle management with maven…

See docs here:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Managing_Alfresco_Lifecyle_with_Maven

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

mindthegab — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:52:08 GMT

Hey guys, things are moving on pretty fast on the Maven side, as we now have an Alfresco hosted Maven repository for Community artifacts and extensions at http://maven.alfresco.com/.

All the Maven Alfresco related activities are gathered in the Maven Alfresco Lifecycle project http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Managing_Alfresco_Lifecyle_with_Maven.

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

mindthegab — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:20:24 GMT

Following yesterday's announcement of the official Alfresco Artifact Repository (http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/its-offici … epository/),
marking this thread as solved as both Alfresco Community and Enterprise artifacts are hosted at http://artifacts.alfresco.com .

Please check:

https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Artifacts_Repository
http://mindthegab.com/2012/06/05/introducing-the-alfresco-artifacts-repository-yes-with-alfresco-enterprise/

For a Maven ALfresco SDK please follow the evolution of the Maven Alfresco Lifecycle project at

http://code.google.com/p/maven-alfresco-archetypes/

by joining the dedicated ML at http://groups.google.com/group/maven-alfresco/.

Re: Maven2 for building extensions

fstnboy — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:54:43 GMT

Hi,

Can't find the WAR type dependency for Alfresco 3.4.9… for the rest of the versions seems to be there but for the one I need it's only POM… Any clues?