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From: Andrew Williams <andy@handyande.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Capture all plugin-friendly APIs/facades in single
 maven-api artifact
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:29:00 +0100
To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org>

I agree also, publicising a restricted API has got to be a useful  
thing for outside developers.
I was trying to do the same with the plexus container but clearly  
that did not go so well!

Andy

On 15 Aug 2007, at 16:13, John Casey wrote:

> The only problem here is that the expression evaluator is meant to  
> give access to build state, not components in the system...which is  
> why the @component annotation is handled in a completely parallel  
> subsystem.
>
> Obviously, plugins _can_ access basically any component in the  
> container (which I'm a little queasy about too, I'll admit)...but  
> it's much, much harder to document a free-for-all system like this,  
> rather than restricting the documentation and interfaces of  
> approved components to a distinct artifact/sub-website/etc.
>
> -john
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote:
>
>> The
>> expressionEvaluator already has a decent api for getting at most  
>> stuff
>> (as demonstrated in the enforcer rules...especially the
>> requirePluginVersionDefined rule), the trouble is you have to know  
>> what
>> component you want or expression is available. Currently this is only
>> accessible by reading the code and/or debugging maven itself.
>
> ---
> John Casey
> Committer and PMC Member, Apache Maven
> mail: jdcasey at commonjava dot org
> blog: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john
>
>


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