Maven 2 metadata for xmlbeans jars

• Key: XMLBEANS-277
• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Jencks
• Affects Version/s: Version 2, Version 2.1, Version 2.2
• Fix Version/s: Version 2.2, Version 2.3

Description

xmlbeans needs accurate maven 2 metadata to ease its use in maven2 built projects. The metadata (pom files) currently published for xmlbeans is inaccurate. I think this would be a good opportunity to also switch the "groupId" for xmlbeans to the maven 2 standard format org.apache.xmlbeans.

I'll attach some preliminary metadata files in a jar. If xmlbeans team members could check at least one pom file for accuracy in urls, mailing lists, team members, etc, I'd appreciate it. I'm asking the maven team about some details on how to handle the xmlpublic jar and the xbean_xpath jar, and also trying to get some testing going to make sure this is reasonably accurate.

Comments

[David Jencks]

I'd appreciate review of one of the pom files in the attached jar, but this is NOT READY to add to svn. It can be used for testing: unpack the jar into your local maven 2 repository and copy the xmlbeans jars into the appropriate directories.

So far the main effect is that the groupId is now org.apache.xmlbeans rather than xmlbeans and you don't need a stax-api dependency since xmlbeans includes it.

[Matt Bishop]

xbean 2.1.0 has a .pom file on ibiblio, but 2.2.0 does not. Should be pretty easy to copy it over and update as needed.

[David Jencks]

Matt, please note that the main reason for filing this issue is that the existing xmlbeans maven poms have serious errors. My proposed solution is to change to a maven2 style groupId for corrected poms. I'm not sure it this is acceptable to the maven2 folks. If you can review the poms in the attachment I'd really appreciate it.

[Cezar Andrei]

David, the links and info seems to be accurate, the only thing that should be fixed is the unsubsribe email address for the user mailing list, it should probably be [e-mail], without the 's' in 'users'.