[DDLUTILS-281] Separate the code and reduce dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Component/s: Ant Tasks, Core (No specific database)
• Labels: ant maven
• Assignee: Thomas Dudziak
• Reporter: Mansour Al Akeel
• Created: 06/Sep/14 20:56
• Updated: 06/Sep/14 20:57

Description

This task is composed of additional tasks.
Currently, the code base is tied to ANT. ddlutils can be used outside of ant.
Here are some senarios that I can think of, where it can be with or without Apache ANT:

1- DB migration. flyway is another tool for db migration.
2- Unit testing, where we need to create and populate data for testing.
3- importing seeds / initial data into any system. Either from a build
system (ANT, Maven .. etc), or during system startup.
4- DB backup ?? may be ?

I am considering separating the code base into fewer components. A separate JIRA task will be created for each:

1- ddlutils (core), contains only the java classes for working with the DB.
2- ant tasks: contains the interface between ANT and ddlutils core.
3- maven tasks: this is not implemented, but can be easily added.

Each of these components, can be a separate maven project:
ddlutils:
--> core
--> ant-task
--> ddlutil-maven-plugin
additional plugin can be added.

Will add a reference for each subtask.

Sub-Tasks

• Remove ant dependency from the core: Open
• Create separate ant task: Open