WebWork + Ivy = Awesome
As WebWork 2.2 wraps up, the only remaining task is documentation. One of the documentation efforts I've always hated is explaining the dependencies. Now that WebWork uses Ivy, we no longer have to do this. Instead, in the distribution, the depdencies are clearly graphed out. If you're not using Ivy or Maven2, you probably should take a look. I was a skeptic at first, but it really does make life easier.
Note: apologies about the weird formatting in that example -- the site CSS is clashing with the pages. It doesn't normally look like that.
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Ivy does really make things easier doesn't it.
We're using it now in Spring Web Flow, a component that can be embedded in many environments, to support automating the .jar dependency configurations for those environments. For example, we provide a "Struts" SWF configuration, a default "mvc" configuration for Spring MVC, a "JSF" configuration, etc. You simply tell Ivy the configuration you need, and all of the specific dependencies are pulled down automatically, and transitively!
Posted by: Keith Donald | September 23, 2005 01:39 PM
And in the near future, a "WebWork" configuration? :)
Posted by: Zsolt | September 24, 2005 05:32 PM