Maven 2.x Invoker Plugin

MavenVersion + ToolChain instead of mavenHome

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.5
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Labels:
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  • Number of attachments :
    1

Description

Jdk-paths are just as personal as maven-paths. It's already great to have the opportunity to change the mavenHome, but combining it with toolchain would provide an even more elegant way of defining the Maven installation to use. Just set the mavenVersion property of this plugin and let toolchain provide you the right mavenHome.

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Robert Scholte added a comment -

Let me give some background info.
Normally the toolchain plugin can be used so all plugins use the same version of a specific tool.
With invoker it's a bit different. Here you explicitly try to use another version of a tool, but the mechanism is the same.
I've added a custom (restricted) toolchains for invoker, since only java and maven are tools which can be set by the invoker. For Maven were no factories or toolchails available, so I've added them as well.
I've written some sort of IT as well, just to see if it would work on my system. There's no way to change the path to the toolchains.xml, so it's not possible to write a proper test.

Configuring the invoker with toolchains would look like this:

<configuration>
  <toolchains>
    <jdk>
      <version>[1.5.0_15]</version>
    </jdk>
    <maven>
      <version>[2.0,)</version>
    </maven>
  </toolchains>
</configuration>
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Robert Scholte added a comment - Let me give some background info. Normally the toolchain plugin can be used so all plugins use the same version of a specific tool. With invoker it's a bit different. Here you explicitly try to use another version of a tool, but the mechanism is the same. I've added a custom (restricted) toolchains for invoker, since only java and maven are tools which can be set by the invoker. For Maven were no factories or toolchails available, so I've added them as well. I've written some sort of IT as well, just to see if it would work on my system. There's no way to change the path to the toolchains.xml, so it's not possible to write a proper test. Configuring the invoker with toolchains would look like this: <configuration> <toolchains> <jdk> <version> [1.5.0_15] </version> </jdk> <maven> <version> [2.0,) </version> </maven> </toolchains> </configuration>

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    Reporter:
    Robert Scholte
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