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Subject: Re: Assembling a Geronimo distribution in a m2 build - first look.
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:44:53 -0700
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
From: Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com>
Sender: Jason Dillon <jason.dillon@gmail.com>

Um, why would we want to do that?  IMO the descriptors are a good  
thing and I do not recommend that we turn that off as a bandaid for  
another problem.

--jason


On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:39 PM, anita kulshreshtha wrote:

>     We can exclude META-INF/maven/.... from the jars by configuring  
> the
> jar plugin to use <addMavenDescriptor>false</..>. I have not used it,
> but it should work.
>
> Thanks
> Anita
>
> --- Prasad Kashyap <goyathlay.geronimo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The m-a-p is invoked twice for the following reasons:
>>
>> When we copy some modules into a m2 repo structure format, it also
>> copies the META-INF/maven/.. directories. This unneccesary directory
>> introduces a very long path too. So in the first execution, we use
>> the
>> <intermediaryAssembly> to skip the archive process. In the second
>> execution, we copy over the repo structure from the staging area but
>> exclude the META-INF/maven dirs into our geronimo/repository.
>>
>>
>> We are unpacking scripts in the first execution. I think it's
>> redundant. I'll remove it.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Prasad
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/1/06, Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com> wrote:
>>> Why do we need to invoke the assembly plugin twice?  It does not
>> look
>>> like there is anything in the steps you listed below that actually
>>> requires that the assembly plugin be invoked twice.  Maybe I am
>>> wrong, can you shed some light on this please?
>>>
>>> --jason
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here's how we assemble our binaries
>>>>
>>>> 1. Our pom.xml first lists all and only geronimo modules, configs
>> and
>>>> apps as dependencies. The transitive deps are taken care of by
>> m-a-p.
>>>>
>>>> 2. We first invoke the geronimo-assembly-plugin's "installConfig"
>> goal
>>>> to install the configs into target/archive-temp/repository. This
>> mojo
>>>> will try to install all dependencies of type "car" when no
>> artifact is
>>>> explicitly specified. Since we have listed all configs as deps in
>> our
>>>> j2ee-jetty-server pom.xml, they are installed.
>>>>
>>>> 3. Then we invoke m-a-p with assembly descriptor setup.xml and
>>>> intermediaryAssembly set to true.  The intermediaryAssembly set
>> to
>>>> true will create the staging area but skip the final archive
>> creation.
>>>> The setup.xml will copy all deps other than the <excludes> from
>>>> localRepository to target/archive-temp/repository. We exclude the
>>>> configs here b'coz the configs are installed in step 2 above. So
>> now
>>>> we have the modules and the configs all in the same repo.
>>>>
>>>> 4. We also use this setup.xml to unpack the scripts module into
>> the
>>>> staging area.
>>>>
>>>> 5. Then we invoke m-a-p again with assembly descriptor bin.xml.
>> The
>>>> plugin copies the library jars, the schema files, the jars for
>> bin
>>>> etc. The *.bat and *.sh files that we copied into the staging
>> area  in
>>>> step 4 are now bundled into the archive but with correct mode and
>>>> lineendings..
>>>>
>>>> That's about it.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Prasad
>>>
>>
>
>
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