[JAMES-497] Introduce use of Maven2

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0-M1
• Component/s: Build System
• Assignee: Norman Maurer
• Reporter: Stefano Bagnara
• Created: 15/May/06 05:41
• Updated: 12/Jan/10 22:07
• Resolved: 12/Jan/10 22:07

Description

Maven2 would give us:

• automatic dependency download from ibiblio (remove problems with lgpl libraries we use in tests)
• generation of .project and .classpath for eclipse and other specific IDE tasks (IDEA): JAMES-439
• simpler integration with third party tools (clover, continuos integration)
• standard folder structure: more similar to our sister project "Apache Directory", we can reuse their installer and modules.
• integrated site generation (good thing if we plan to make our release cycles faster)

Issue Links

• incorporates: JAMES-439 Generate an Eclipse .classpath file during build