Maven2

We are using Maven2 as buildmanagement tool. So we can reuse the poweful dependency and project management. The concept Convention over Configuration offers the using of defaults instead configuring every thing like Ant.

Maven2

Setting up your system
Setting up Eclipse
How to use the provided Launch-Configurations
Installing the Fornax profile
Creating a new project
Deploying new artifacts to the Fornax release repository

Setting up your system

Download the current release from the official download site
Extract the archive
Add an environment variable MVN_HOME pointing to the folder the download archive was extracted to
Extend you environment variable PATH with %MVN_HOME%\bin for Windows or $MVN_HOME/bin for Linux/Mac OS X
Open a shell (or command prompt) and type mvn -v. You should get
```
Apache Maven 3.0
```
Your system is set up properly.

Setting up Eclipse

Install all nessesary plugins (see 1 Eclipse-Plugins)
Configure the Fornax SVN-Repository inside Eclipse (see 2 Subversion)
Check out the project maven-launcher from https://fornax.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fornax/trunk/maven-launcher/
Add a runtime variable in Eclipse:
Window->Preferences->Run/Debug->String Substitution
Now you are done. If you open the External Launchers Dialog you see all available launchers

How to use the provided Launch-Configurations

The Launch-Configurations provided by the checked out project maven-launcher are the most common used goals for the development with the Fornax-Platform. If you need a special call you can use the launcher Fornax [mvn-commandline] you can enter all parameters you need. For this this launcher offers a textfield after launch:

Installing the Fornax profile

You must install the Fornax profile. This defines the repositories you want to use for dependency resolving. This is done in the $user.home/.m2/settings.xml. Merge the following snippet in your settings.xml. If you don't have a settings.xml you must create one.

<settings>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
      </activation>
    <id>fornax</id>
    <repositories>
      <repository>
        <id>public.fornax-platform.org</id>
        <name>Fornax Public Repository</name>
        <url>http://fornax-platform.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
        <releases>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
          <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
      </repository>
      <repository>
        <id>snapshots.fornax-platform.org</id>
        <name>Fornax Snapshot Repository</name>
        <url>http://fornax-platform.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
        <releases>
          <enabled>false</enabled>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
      </repository>
    </repositories>

    <pluginRepositories>
      <pluginRepository>
        <id>public.fornax-platform.org</id>
        <name>Fornax Public Repository</name>
        <url>http://fornax-platform.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
        <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
      </pluginRepository>
      <pluginRepository>
        <id>snapshots.fornax-platform.org</id>
        <name>Fornax Snapshot Repository</name>
        <url>http://fornax-platform.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
        <releases>
          <enabled>false</enabled>
        </releases>
        <snapshots>
          <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
      </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</settings>

For further information about the settings consult the settings guide by Maven2.

Creating a new project

Please refer the document Create new projects.

Deploying new artifacts to the Fornax release repository

Sometimes it will be necessary to deploy 3rd party jars to the Fornax release repository. This is done using the Maven Deploy Plugin as follows:

 mvn deploy:deploy-file
     -DrepositoryId=releases.fornax-platform.org
     -Durl=http://fornax-platform.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/
     -Dfile=/Users/thoms/.m2/repository/org/fitnesse/fitnesse/20090214/fitnesse-20090214.jar
     -DpomFile=/Users/thoms/.m2/repository/org/fitnesse/fitnesse/20090214/fitnesse-20090214.pom

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