Grouper Developers Forum

[Neil Matatall <>]

I just checked out the Mavenized ldappc code and I have to say that I am 
quite impressed.  I had never used Maven before.  I only knew what it 
did on the surface.  And I love it already.

I can imagine there is quite a bit of overhead when initially mavenizing 
a project and I know nothing about the upkeep.  But from a developers 
standpoint, I have had a much better experience setting up the ldappc 
project than any other.

Checkout->Download and add Maven to the PATH->mvn->done.  Easy.  I 
literally did nothing else.

Although it does take a long time to download the dependencies.  This is 
a one time cost that I am fine with.  My only other complaint is that 
there are few files/directories that I'm assuming are maven-related that 
look very foreign to me.  Count one vote for mavenizing everything :)


Kathryn Huxtable wrote:
> Yep. I agree 100%.
>
> BTW, I have renamed the CVS projects. The old 1.1.1 version is now 
> ldappc-old and the new 1.2.0 version is ldappc. I have added information 
> to this effect in the wiki.
>
> -K
>
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Tom Barton wrote:
>
> > I agree that the overriding issue from the deployer's perspective is 
> > lack of sufficient integration among grouper, signet, subject, and 
> > ldappc. It's not how they each are built, it's their combined 
> > deployment footprint and configuration. Fixing this is one of the 
> > hardest items remaining on the combined signet & grouper roadmap.
> >
> > So I too don't wish to add complexity from the deployer's perspective. 
> > I hope that Ldappc, like Subject API, being delivered as a binary 
> > (with source available) will avoid the need for most deployers to use 
> > an additional build tool.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > Michael R. Gettes wrote:
> > > Dave, I agree change for the sake of change is not
> > > desirable.  I just don't buy the consistency argument.
> > > Especially, from my experiences with COmanage,
> > > things are already not consistent, by any stretch.
> > > /mrg
> > > On Aug 7, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Dave Donnelly wrote:
> > > > Shibboleth may be mavenized, but Ldappc is being *used*
> > > > with Grouper and Signet, both of which use Ant. So I
> > > > would have to agree with Mike O. regarding consistency.
> > <tbarton.vcf>