Brett PorterThoughts on Maven and Java from my corner of Sydney, AustraliaTransitive Dependencies in Ant- April 25, 2005 The Maven team have released a set of Ant tasks for performing dependency management within your Ant scripts. This includes: Transitive dependencies Snapshot handling Scope tracking Deployment using SCP, SFTP, and file protocols The tasks are based on the Maven 2.0 artifact handling code, so behave identically. The version included is slightly newer, from the upcoming alpha-2 release. This gives you access to the more than 8500 artifacts available in the Maven central repository,...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/001058_transitive_dependencies_in_ant.html Improved snapshots in Maven2- April 14, 2005 Snapshots were something that I believed to be widely misunderstood in Maven 1.0, and this was because they tended to have a dual purpose. I believe it is now a lot closer to the original intention. Snapshots as Dependencies From ther POM writer's perspective using a development library, a dependency always contains SNAPSHOT (eg 2.0-SNAPSHOT). However, snapshots are now deployed to the remote server as numbered versions, never as just the single filename. Repository metadata is used to store..http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/001045_improved_snapshots_in_maven2.html Maven 2.0 Technology Preview Release- April 8, 2005 The first Maven 2.0 Technology Preview release is now out. http:maven.apache.orgmaven2index.html We're looking forward to hearing your feedback, ideas, and (to a lesser extent :) bug reports. If you need help with the release, please consult the documentation frequently as we continue to update it, and subscribe to the usersmaven.apache.org mailing list. For more information, please see http:maven.apache.orgmaven2about.htmlget-help We welcome contributors to the Maven project - if you are...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/001038_maven_20_technology_preview_release... |