All Over The Map

I wish I had adopted Maven earlier. I was  surprised at how well it all worked. It took a few  days to go from no knowledge of Maven to a system that builds naws, generates docs and supports a Maven repository for naws3 users. These links were very helpful. Some of the things that caused me lose time were:

1. Tried to configure NetBeans remote repositories using pom files. That did not work you need to use the NetBeans repository browser and for some reason I could not find it. The Maven repository browser in NetBeans is not available from the project nodes, it is under Window / Other / Maven Repository Browser. More details can be found here.
2. The site setup for ssh took some time because of an error in The Oreilly Maven book, it used publicKey instead of privateKey for the  key on page 318
3. naws has some files that use the IAIK security libraries, I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to have the files there but not compiled by NetBeans. I was hoping that Maven would pre-process the files NetBeans includes in a  project.  I don’t think this is possible so I moved them out to a separate project not ideal
4. setting properties for Maven is still a mystery so I am just using settings.xml (-X doesn’t tell you what properties file it is reading and in what order)

The still being worked on Maven generated site can be found here: digiorgio.com/naws3 and the repository with the required jars can be found here digiorgio.com:8082/artifactory/naws3/ naws3 is hosted on kenai for source code management, ans issue tracking. CI, static analysis, dynamic analysis and OpenGrok interfaces are on digiorgio.com.