If you're still thinking that you'll use Maven for build and dependency management, you'll want to make your directory tree conform to Maven rules. For example, the Java source is stored in a "src/main/ java" directory and test cases are stored in a "src/test/java" directory. The results of the build process are typically stored in a "target" directory which is at the same level in the tree as the "src" directory, and libraries go into "src/main/resources".
Here's a link to a description of Maven's standard directory layout: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html Cheers Chris On Nov 22, 2010, at 11:26 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
I've started to build a putative Java tree for BrailleBlaster, partlybecause I feel that we are ready for such an attempt and partly to learnby doing. So far I have a bin subdirectory for compiled classes, a lib subdirectory for jar files and a few classes from elsewhere, and a src subdirectory. Both the bin and src subdirectories are proper Java hierarchies. Under src/org/brailleblaster I have the following packages: startbb liblouisutdml and editor The first contains the StartBB class, which contains the main method and gets everything ready to run. It may have other classes as time goes on. The liblouisutdml package contains classes for dealing with the liblouisutdml library, such as converting its input and output from and to JDOM documents and handling errors reported in the log file. The editor package contains the classes Editor, DaisyWindow and BrailleWindow. Other classes will be added, such as Commons to handle operations common to the two windows. A method in the Editor class iscalled from the StartBB class to start the editor. This Editor class isthe Control in MVC. The two window classes are the view. The Commons class is the model. The editor's basic function is to display JDOM documents and trees and to modify them according to user input. Producing them and generatingvarious types of output from them is the job of other packages. Besidesthis basic function, the edotor also acts as the general user interface. It therefore displays dialogue boxes and menus that areactually produced by other packages, such as the help package, which hasyet to be added.At some time I may want to push this tree to the project repository, butI don't seem to have a password. At present the lib subdirectory contains jdom.jar swt.jar andJliblouisutdml.class Jeuclid.jar will be added later, as will jar files containing classes to deal with other C libraries, such as itex2mml.jarand hunspell.jar All right, maybe I'm making a fool of myself again, but this is a start. John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities
