Describes the installation and usage of the Jalopy Maven 1 Plug-in. Maven [Link] is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
Maven 1 is in maintenance mode, i.e. development is restricted to support and bug fixes. You might be better of with the current release. Please refer to the main Maven site for further information
Explains the steps involved in getting the Maven 1 Plug-in up and running.
The Plug-in requires Maven 1.0 - 1.1. See the section called “System requirements” for the basic requirements to run Jalopy. Please note that it won’t work with later versions. A different Plug-in is available for more recent Maven versions (see Chapter 11, Maven 2 Plug-in).
The Plug-in comes as an executable Jar Archive (JAR) that contains a graphical setup wizard to let you easily install the software. Wizard installation is recommended and explained in detail in the section called “Wizard Installation”.
If you would rather install the Plug-in manually, you have to decompress and copy the appropriate files into the different application and/or settings folders. To decompress the contents of the installer JAR, you can often use the build-in support of your file manager (e.g. Nautilus) or any other software that can handle the ZIP compression format (e.g. 7Zip, WinZip or Stuffit Expander). If you don’t have access to one of the convenience tools, you might resort to the jar command-line application that ships with your Java distribution.
If you’re upgrading from a prior version and want to keep your settings, first
copy or rename the current Jalopy settings directory to match the version number
of the new release. For instance, if your current settings directory is
C:\Documents and Settings\John Doo\.jalopy\1.9
and you’re about to install Jalopy 1.9.3, either copy the directory
contents or rename it to
C:\Documents and Settings\.jalopy\John Doo\1.9.3.
Wizard installation can perform this step automatically.
Remove any jalopy-1.9.3.jar files
from the /lib and /plugins directories
of your Maven installation, e.g from
/home/John Doo/apps/maven-1.0.2/lib/ and
/home/John Doo/apps/maven-1.0.2/plugins/.
Copy the files jalopy-1.9.3.jar
and jalopy-ant-1.9.3.jar from
the temporary directory into the /lib folder of your
Maven installation.
If you don’t have the Console Plug-in installed and want to be able to configure
Jalopy from the command-line, copy the contents of the /bin
folder from the temporary directory to the /bin folder
of your Maven installation.
As a last step, copy the file
jalopy-maven-1.9.3.jar from the
temporary directory into the /plugins folder of your Maven
installation.