Migrate the project from Ant to Multimodule project with Maven

[jabrena]

I am trying to use the project in an embedded environment and I would like to use this project to test all features from a Java Runtime Image but the project requires compilation in the destination.

I would like to propose to migrate Ant to Maven to offer more global consistency.

What is your opinion?

Juan Antonio

[smlambert]

It is not a task we had on the near-term horizon, as if we shifted to use this, it would be good to shift to use it for all of our test materials (so a large undertaking).

Can you explain how shifting to maven will help the compilation story for embedded (is it that you gain more flexibility in what gets compiled?)

I believe there are a couple of things you can try to mitigate the compilation of test materials story for the embedded environment:

1. only compile the test projects you wish to run (using the BUILD_LIST environment variable)
2. cross-compile the test material elsewhere and load to device

[lumpfish]

There may be tests in this project which will not work with only a jre - they may expect to have tools such as javac and jar available in the jdk under test.