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I follow up the conversation with Ryan

“started from scratch with a “real world use case”"

The plugin came from a real world use case, and all features were added by real use cases.

The JNLP spec is quite complex, it’s a full deployment spec, with many features. It has drawbacks and requires work-arounds (pack+sign, multiple signatures, etc…). So the webstart plugin ends up being an integrator of many features.

You plugin is nice as it provides entry level, but for anything ‘real world’, i.e. applications that require complex features, I don’t think it cuts it. If people start using it and add features, then its complexity will grow.

The main code of the plugin is here:

https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/webstart-maven-plugin/plugin/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/webstart/AbstractJnlpMojo.java

execute() method

copyResources( getResourcesDirectory(), getLibDirectory() );
artifactWithMainClass = null;
processDependencies();
signOrRenameJars();
packJars();
generateJnlpFile( getWorkDirectory() );
File toFile = new File( getProject().getBuild().getDirectory(), getProject().getBuild().getFinalName() + “.zip” );
if ( toFile.exists() )
{
getLog().debug( “deleting file ” + toFile );
toFile.delete();
}
zipArchiver.addDirectory( getWorkDirectory() );
zipArchiver.setDestFile( toFile );
zipArchiver.createArchive();
projectHelper.attachArtifact( getProject(), “zip”, toFile );

(I removed comments and logging code)

Is that complex ?

We perhaps need to write the webstart plugin from scratch. I will look into that when I get some free time.

Anyway, I wait for the code, as asked in MWEBSTART-87. (couldn’t find it referenced from this page nor in the POM).

As to maven really making life simpler, I really agree with you. I wrote this almost 2 years ago http://www.coffeebreaks.org/blogs/?p=26, and I think it still mostly holds.

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