These are all 100% applicable to ofbiz, as the project is lacking in these way.
The reason I offered the web walk through was to see firsthand some of these.
> Numbering just for discussion (no priority):
>
> 1. Order of magnitude better dependency management
> 1. Self-documenting JAR references
> 2. Less JARs need direct references (sub-dependencies will be pulled
> automatically)
> 3. Internal project dependencies clearer
> 4. The dependency analysis plugin in maven will help keep the excess
> out of the project
> 2. Smaller subversion checkout
> 3. Much better SCM, particularly across components
> 4. (kind of a sub-point of #3) Better deployment capabilities
> 5. More options for build automation (can still use ant, but now get full
> world of Maven plugins too)
> 1. One example is I've configured the eclipse plugin so that the
> .project and .classpath files are auto-generated and kept up-to-date as
> dependencies change.
> 6. Smart build management: ant is simple, it always does everything;
> maven is smart, only does what you need -- usually ;-)
> 7. Standardization of folder structure
>
> That's off top of my head; there are more.
>
> ~~~
> Lon F. Binder
> 917-669-7341
> @lonbinder <
http://twitter.com/#%21/lonbinder> (twitter)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Hans Bakker
> <
[hidden email]>wrote:
>
> > Hi Lon,
> >
> > could you please tell us what the advantage is of this exercise no using
> > maven2?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hans
> >
> > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:11 -0400, Lon Binder wrote:
> > > I know Maven has been discussed briefly in the past, but we have gone
> > ahead
> > > full force with it locally. We have converted the entire OFBiz (actually
> > > Opentaps fork) over to Maven.
> > >
> > > We have not completely done away with Ant at the moment, but we're about
> > 80%
> > > of the way there. Most of what hasn't been converted are local changes
> > not
> > > common to OFBiz anyway (although they should be).
> > >
> > > I've given Si at Opentaps a walk through, but was thinking you guys may
> > want
> > > to see what we've done as well. Happy to donate the whole thing.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you're interested in a web conference.
> > >
> > > ~~~
> > > Lon F. Binder
> > > 917-669-7341
> > > @lonbinder <
http://twitter.com/#%21/lonbinder> (twitter)
> >
> > --
> > Ofbiz on twitter:
http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz> > Alternative ofbiz website:
http://www.ofbiz.info> >
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> >
> >