Maven 3 will be groovy

Posted Sun, 22/11/2009 - 18:05 by ittayd
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Maven 3 will have extensive support for Groovy:

  • It will be possible for the pom file itself to be written in Groovy. This means the pom can be created with dynamic code.
  • Executing Groovy code directly at different lifecycle points
  • Short syntax for defining dependencies

 

The pom files will be translated to XML, so tool support (IDE integration) will continue to work.

 

Read more:

http://www.wakaleo.com/blog/236-writing-your-pom-files-in-groovy-a-sneek...

http://www.wakaleo.com/blog/237-more-groovy-magic-with-maven-pom-files