[DERBY-6645] Switch to Maven for building Apache Derby

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 10.10.2.0
• Component/s: Build tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Moritz Hoffmann
• Created: 02/Jul/14 14:42
• Updated: 14/Apr/24 13:12

Description

For a new user building Derby is very hard. It does not follow established Java project structures and requires a lot of prior knowledge. Also the documentation is rather short. Especially running the tests is non-intuitive at the beginning. Thus, I propose that Derby switches to building using Maven and restructures its components in a cleaner way. Testing should be revised to produce reproducible results. This would make development and testing much easier and more user-friendly.

Issue Links

• is related to: DERBY-7162 Update Git mirror for db-derby. Current mirror is out of date, hasn't been updated since 2019
• relates to: DERBY-6945 Re-package Derby as a collection of jigsaw modules
• relates to: DERBY-3547 Create a utility that generates a security policy file for Derby's tests