Maven Alfresco SDK - Big thing, but not mentioned in roadmap

[arnoldschrijve1]

Maybe I have missed the official announcement, but the information of the Devcon 2012 session by Gabriele Columbro on Alfresco and Maven contains some important stuff that I am really curious to hear more about (see: http://devcon.alfresco.com/berlin/sessions/alfresco-maven-happy-ending-or-just-beginning).

There is no information in the Roadmap 2012 on this, or anywhere else that I could find, but from the summary I conclude that:

- Alfresco will be moving their own build to Maven instead of Ant (rather than only publishing build artifacts to a maven repo)
- There will be a full-fledged, aflresco-supported Maven Alfresco SDK!!

Using an adapted version of the maven-alfresco-archetypes myself, this leads to a number of questions:

- What is the relationship to the community efforts around Maven Alfresco (http://code.google.com/p/maven-alfresco-archetypes/ in particular)?
- What does the Alfresco SDK encompass in terms of archetypes, plugins?
- When is the planned release date, and can we already test-drive a pre-release version of it?
- Shouldn't there be a mention of these kind of devenvironment strategies on the Roadmap 2012 in the Alfresco Wiki?

I should probably now subscribe to the Maven Alfresco Lifecycle Discussion Group and ask how this affects their efforts (which I really appreciate BTW), but maybe there is also someone on this forum that knows…

[mikeh]

Have you seen https://maven.alfresco.com ?

- Alfresco will be moving their own build to Maven instead of Ant (rather than only publishing build artifacts to a maven repo)

I'm fairly certain that's not planned at all.

Thanks,
Mike

[arnoldschrijve1]

Yep, you are quite right, sorry. I read things between the lines that weren't there.

[arnoldschrijve1]

In fact, ignore my first rant completely. I got confused with all the Maven activity happening around Alfresco.
AFAIK now the Maven Alfresco SDK is being developed as part of the Maven Alfresco Lifcycle project in google code.

[mindthegab]

Hey Arnold,

I understand the pain suffered in this area in the last years, and the confusion due to the project changing name a few times. I can confirm that the effort is still being developed in Google Code at the Maven Alfresco Archetypes project (http://maven-alfresco-archetypes.googlecode.com/).

As discussed in the now official Maven Alfresco SDK page (https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Maven_Alfresco_SDK) is a fully fledged support (plugin, parent POm, archetypes), backed by the Alfresco Artifacts Repository (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Artifacts_Repository).

For full details you can check out the nice Maven site with all the docs at https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/alfresco-docs/alfresco-lifecycle-aggregato....

I swear this is the last big change in terms of naming / groupId / artifactId. In fact we wanted to make it really right now that we have a full support from our release management team.

Hope this helps!

[arnoldschrijve1]

Thank you, Gabriele!

I have been following the project quite closely for some time, and I can't wait to start using the latest version for my EE release, when that becomes available. You guys really did a great job!!!