Formerly known as VeniceFrameworkWebService is now the new VeniceWebService project. It has just been committed to the repository. We had been thinking about porting the Netbeans project to maven for a while now, seeing that there were two major problems with the status quo.
- Integrating the framework and the webservice would be difficult if the projects were using different build tools (one Ant w/convoluted Netbeans artifacts, one with maven2).
- The framework needed to be built seperately, copied over to the webservice folder. There was an anomaly which resulted in ~20mb war file even though the framework was only about 9mb
Since both projects are now maven2 projects, one can be the parent and the other a module. This way they can share dependencies as well as share each other's source files cross-project--which was exactly what we needed. This is also means that using one single maven command, the developer can build both the framework and the webservice and subsequently deploy them.
The VeniceClient is still a Ant/Netbeans project, we are hoping to port this over soon so that all three projects are under the same build tool.
The ultimate benefit is that all projects will be IDE independent as well as cross-platform.
Write once, run anyway anywhere!
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