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Status Not under consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on May 7, 2024

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maven support when building java projects with ibmint

Many customer are using Java within their integrations / flows. 
Beside the code the Java projects typically include resources like images, template files and others.  

When building with mqsicreatebar the customer has got the option to use "Maven mechanism" under the cover. 
(via builders and natures defined in the .project file). 
Based on this setup the resources are automatically package into the resulting jar file - when compiling the Java project. 

Based on the IBM strategy ibmint should become the new strategic cli tooling. 
However as of today ibmint does not support any "maven mechanism / handling". 
This means the customers need to re-org and adopt their complete build chain - as they now have to handle all resources files separately on their own. 

Thus it would be great if ibmint would also support such meachnism. 
This would allow many customers  to easily switch to the new cli tooling. 

 

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
    Reply
    |     May 10, 2024

    Idea Review. Thank you for taking the time to raise this enhancement idea. Under the covers, the implementation of the mqsicreatebar command is utilizing eclipse running in headless mode. This brings with mqsicreatebar a requirement to have Toolkit / Eclipse installed where the build script is executing, and so avoiding this pre-requisite was one of the main reasons for investing in other packaging options (mqsipackagebar and ibmint) which do not need Eclipse. The requirement mentions that when Maven invokes mqsicreatebar the builders and natures result in the Java dependencies being dragged into the jar / bar.

    We strongly suspect that this only works due to inheriting eclipse capabilities for grabbing the resources and building them in to the jar / bar. In order to get this same behaviour from ibmint, we would need to build capability into ibmint which has knowledge of eclipse builders and natures or alternatively options for Java building. It seems more maintainable for this to be done directly from your build tool or via your build tool calling into Maven to do this, rather than to do this indirectly through ibmint. Given this, on this occasion we will not be taking this suggestion forward right now.

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