XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> > May I ask you to upload the final version to some public maven repository?
> 
> Eventually once I'm sure it's OK. Maven's a bit of a pain because I 
> don't use maven to build XOM itself.

One thing I found out was that there's a decent set of Maven Ant tasks that 
allow easy deployment of Maven artifacts from Ant:

http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/index.html
http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/reference.html#Task

I started using these tasks (earlier did manual uploads) because otherwise it 
is a pain to try to get all metadata (checksums, file that contains refs to 
all versions, needed for version-range dependencies) properly done manually 
or using plain Ant tasks.

The only problem I had with the tasks was that for some reason I had to add 
them to Ant's global jar directory (most other tasks, such as OSGi wrappers 
work just fine when added to project-specific locations).

So at least there's a reasonable way to easily do maven deployments without 
absolutely having to start using Maven as the build system.

-+ Tatu +-