Flex
Continuous
Quality Builds
Flex & (Ant || Maven)
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Building
Ant :
FlexAntTasks
Ant : Antennae
• Maven :
• Flex-mojos (conseillé par la Flex Team)
• Alternatives :
• ServeBox (Projet Français)
• and Israfil
FlexMojos V3 est un projet sonatype
Sonatype et Adobe travaillent ensemble pour le support FB dans m2eclipse
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Flex Mojos : http://flexmojos.sonatype.org
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Managing Dependencies
Maven || (Ant + Ivy)
Demo : http://localhost:9999/hudson/job/cairngormenterprise/site/dependencies.html
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Managing Dependencies
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(Unit)Test within your Build
FlexUnit within your build
Maven
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Automated documentation and reports
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Quality control within your build
Quality Reports within your build
AS3NCSS
http://localhost:9999/hudson/job/cairngorm/site/javancss.html
FlexPMD
http://localhost:9999/hudson/job/cairngorm/12/pmdResult/
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Detect code anti-patterns : Flex PMD
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Continuous Integration
CI : Continuous Quality Builds
Demo : http://localhost:9999/hudson/
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Demo Maven
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A typical Java flex remoting web app
Discover a « mavenized » Flex BlazeDS Spring project, and its modules :
java_* are plain old maven java projects
flex_* are flex-mojos project
blazeds _service_config is a shared resource handled through maven assembly
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Eclipse / m2eclipse / FlexBuilder
• Note that once your project
imported , you may still
• Use your favorite servers and eclipse
plugins wtp facilities
• Debug your application
• On the server side
• On the client side
• Manage your dependencies and maven
build through m2eclipse plugin.
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Appendix :
By the way …
What is Maven ?
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What is Maven anyway ? (very short definition)
A build tool
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A dependency management tool • A documentation and quality
reporting tool
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What is Maven anyway ? (its architecture)
Plugin
jar
Projects Plugin
Maven Core
to build flex-mojos
Plugin
war
Local machine Remote repository or local install
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What is Maven anyway ? (its plug-ins, a few of them…)
• Antlr • Ear • Javancss • Release
• Ant • Eclipse • Jboss • Repository
• AntRun • Ejb • Jcoverage Jdepend • Resources
• AspectJ • Ejb3 • Jdiff • Repository
• Assembly • Exec • Jelly • Sablecc
• Assembly-report • Flex-mojos • Jetty • Site
• Cargo • Flex-annotations • Jpox • Slimdog
• Castor • Groovy • Jspc • Source
• Changelog • Help • Jxr • Surefire
• Changes • Hibernate2 • MAnt • Surefire-report
• Commons-attributes • Idea • Native • Taglist
• Checkstyle • Install • One • Tomcat
• Clean • Issue • Par • Verifier
• Clover • It • Plugin • Xslt
• Csharp • Jalopy • Pmd • War
• Cobertura • Jar • Project-info-reports • Wsdl2java
• Compiler • Javacc • Rar • Xdoclet
• Deploy • Javadoc • Xmlbeans
• XRadar
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Flex Mojos : http://flexmojos.sonatype.org
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What is Maven anyway ? (a common project format and organization)
Maven is really a process of applying patterns to a build infrastructure
in order to provide a coherent view of software projects.
A Common project metadata format
POM = Project Object Model = pom.xml
Contains metadata about the project
Location of directories, Developers/Contributors, Issue tracking system, Dependencies,
Repositories to use, etc
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What is Maven anyway ? (a common project format and organization)
A common directory organization
Our sample of 6 nested projects :
• src/
– main/
• java/
• flex/
• resources/
• webapp/
– test/
• java/
• flex/
• resources/
– site/
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What is Maven anyway ? (a common way to build application)
generate-
sources mojo
compile
mojo
test
mojo
package plug-ins
integration-
test
user mojo
install
mojo
e.g. mvn install deploy bindings
Well-known phases
The lifecycle depends on the project type (packaging)
Defined in pom.xml (pom, jar, ear, war, etc)
Ex: <packaging>swc</packaging>
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What is Maven anyway ? (it’s even much more)
Artifact repository :
Used to store all kind of artifacts
SWCs, SWFs, JARs, EARs, WARs, EJBs, ZIPs, plugins, …
All project interactions go through the repository
No more relative paths!
Easy to share between teams
Dependency management A
Transitive dependency management
Snapshot handling B C
Multi-module built
D
Environment dependent builds based on profile
Project documentation site and report
Project templating through archetype
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