[brailleblaster] Start up scripts for BrailleBlaster, two solutions using maven
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:53:31 +0100
Hello,
I said in a previous message that the proposed way of starting
BrailleBlaster java code was just complicated and that I thought much
better and simpler solutions existed which would fit in with using maven
as a build system. I have now done a quick look and here are two options.
1. Use the built in maven assembly plugin: This possibly is the most
flexible option as the assembly plugin is really a general plugin for
allowing you to assemble archive files from maven projects and create
custom descriptors. For this I think we would need to provide the start
up scripts (shell script for unix and batch file for windows) and then
just get the assembly plugin to copy these into the correct location.
2. The AppAssembler plugin from codehaus
http://mojo.codehaus.org/appassembler/appassembler-maven-plugin/: This
plugin seems to be more targeted at creating application bundles which
is what we are looking at here. It has a mechanism for it to generate
these start up scripts for us, however it may be limiting should we want
to do something very advanced.
At the moment I have no strong view for one of these options over the
other, but these both are better than having to write custom C code to
use JNI, just to start the JVM in a particular class.
Michael Whapples
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