JBehave
  1. JBehave
  2. JBEHAVE-236

Checking out, building and testing JBehave from scratch

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          • Type: Task Task
          • Status: Resolved Resolved
          • Priority: Major Major
          • Resolution: Fixed
          • Affects Version/s: 2.4
          • Fix Version/s: 2.4.1, 2.5
          • Component/s: Documentation
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            Description

            Hi Mauro,

            The Maven build has completely superseded the Ant build, which is now very broken. This is fair, since you've done all the work lately - thanks!

            Could you please put a small amount of documentation out to show how to build JBehave from check-out, for those of us who don't know Maven? The learning curve has been off-putting even for those of us who care a lot

            Cheers,
            Liz.

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              Mauro Talevi made changes -
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              Hi Liz,

              Ant build had out-of-date dependencies. I've now refactored it to read the dependencies from the Maven pom.xml so they are in sync, using the maven-ant-tasks (does not require Maven installed, but does required the maven-ant-tasks jar in the Ant lib dir, see BUILD.txt). Build works again, with only exception that I could not get the Paranamer-based behaviours to pass in CandidateStepBehaviour. It is a classloading issue, only occuring with Ant. If you run 'ant setup', which copies the dependencies to target/lib, and then use to setup your IDE classpath, you'll see that in IDE the behaviour works fine. So I excluded it for now from the batch of unit tests, leaving a FIXME in the build.xml.

              More in general, this issue shows that keeping two build systems in place is an overhead that we could do without. I think that basic usage of Maven does not differ very much from Ant, with notable exception that it's a bit more structured (with advantage of consistency). The BUILD.txt file at top-level that has some basic info on how to build with Maven. We can expand it if you can point out what could be clarified better, from a Maven novice POV.

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              Mauro Talevi added a comment - Hi Liz, Ant build had out-of-date dependencies. I've now refactored it to read the dependencies from the Maven pom.xml so they are in sync, using the maven-ant-tasks (does not require Maven installed, but does required the maven-ant-tasks jar in the Ant lib dir, see BUILD.txt). Build works again, with only exception that I could not get the Paranamer-based behaviours to pass in CandidateStepBehaviour. It is a classloading issue, only occuring with Ant. If you run 'ant setup', which copies the dependencies to target/lib, and then use to setup your IDE classpath, you'll see that in IDE the behaviour works fine. So I excluded it for now from the batch of unit tests, leaving a FIXME in the build.xml. More in general, this issue shows that keeping two build systems in place is an overhead that we could do without. I think that basic usage of Maven does not differ very much from Ant, with notable exception that it's a bit more structured (with advantage of consistency). The BUILD.txt file at top-level that has some basic info on how to build with Maven. We can expand it if you can point out what could be clarified better, from a Maven novice POV.
              Mauro Talevi made changes -
              Assignee Mauro Talevi [ maurotalevi ]
              Fix Version/s 2.5 [ 15850 ]
              Mauro Talevi made changes -
              Fix Version/s 2.4.1 [ 16188 ]
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              Mauro Talevi added a comment -

              Added documentation page "Building Source" in "About" section.

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              Mauro Talevi added a comment - Added documentation page "Building Source" in "About" section.
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              Status Open [ 1 ] Resolved [ 5 ]
              Resolution Fixed [ 1 ]

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                • Assignee:
                  Mauro Talevi
                  Reporter:
                  Elizabeth Keogh
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