Brian Murphy wrote a long blog post about the PAX Plugin which provides a good example of the power of Maven to act as an integration “bridge” between a number of unrelated technologies. In this post, Brian is using the PAX Maven Plugin from ops4j together with the gmaven-plugin and the maven-scala-plugin, he concludes with praise for Maven as an essential time saver:
“This ended up being a much longer article than I anticipated but we’ve covered a lot of ground. Maven has worked it’s dependency voodoo which saved an enormous amount of time downloading jars and messing with classpaths. We’ve seen how the PAX toolkit from OPS4J makes creating, modifying and provisioning OSGi bundles a breeze. While the actual code examples were pretty trivial, we successfully managed to code up bundles in Java, Scala and Groovy. I think this displays a lot of the power that is offered by OSGi and points to a bright future for enterprise development on the JVM.”
Graeme Rocher has never been a fan of Maven, and (as far as I can tell) he still isn’t. In “
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