On 03/27/2011 08:09 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe wrote:

> 
> These days I'm trying to figure out and list the requirements for the
> project. The idea page only contain a brief description. I'd very much
> appreciate if anyone can give some further information regarding this
> idea. I'm little depressed with lesser support because Google Summer
> of Code is time-constrained which means I have to do a good initial
> research and submit a proposal in a 1 1/2 weeks time. I guess it's
> probably because of weekends?
> 

As much as GSoC is time-constrained so are our personal lives. Some
delays come with the territory of volunteer work. For the basic goal of
the project we would like to be able to natively use Maven in Java
packages in the main tree. Currently we for example use the ant:ant
target to generate build.xml and then sanitize that. As we would like
these ebuilds to be dependencies for others an ebuild generator like
proposed by Brian doesn't cut it alone. A generator could of course be
useful in the process of generating ebuilds that are good enough to be
committed to Portage. I think both Fedora and Debian have already been
able to accomplish this so I would do some research into their
solutions. Here's some quick Google results to get you started:

http://wiki.debian.org/Java/MavenBuilder
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Java#maven2

If you want to have an online discussion or ask any questions you might
have interactively you can find the Java developers at
#gentoo-java@freenode. Please note that depending on how time zones
match we might not always be around.

Regards,
Petteri