[CONNECTORS-92] Move from ant to maven or other build system with decent library management

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 0.3
• Component/s: Build
• Assignee: Karl Wright
• Reporter: Jettro Coenradie
• Created: 23/Aug/10 14:54
• Updated: 12/Aug/11 14:16
• Resolved: 12/Aug/11 14:16

Description

I am looking at the current project structure. If we want to make another build tool available I think we need to change the directory structure. I tried to place a suggestion in an image. Can you please have a look at it. If we agree that this is a good way to go, than I will continue to work on a patch. Which might be a bit hard with all these changing directories, but I'll do my best to at least get an idea whether it would be working.

So I have three questions:

• Do you want to move to maven or put maven next to ant?
• Do you prefer another build mechanism [ant with ivy, gradle, maven3]
• Do you have an idea about the amount of scripts that need to be changed if we change the project structure

The image of a possible project layout (that is based on the maven standards) is attached to the issue