Re: [DISCUSS] remove maven-xbean-plugin

Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:05:30 +0200
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Think there were some other usages but also think they are all legacy and
unlikely to use any new release (not even sure v3 was used) so +1 from me

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Le lun. 27 juil. 2026 =C3=A0 09:28, Mark Struberg via dev <
[email protected]> a =C3=A9crit :

> hi!
> I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-362 for removing
> the maven plugin from xbean.
>
> Please should out if one is still using it (which I doubt).
>
> Afaiu the maven-xbean-plugin exists to create spring XML definitions for
> spring 2. This is stone old and not a supported spring environment for mo=
re
> than a decade.
>
> We should imo just remove it. It is btw also named wrongly. Since around
> 2008 a convention exists that only Maven own plugins should be named
> maven-*-plugin. Other projects should use project-maven-plugin as naming
> scheme.
>
>
> LieGrue,
>
> strub
>
>
>

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r"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">Le=C2=A0lun. 27 juil. 2026 =C3=A0=
=C2=A009:28, Mark Struberg via dev &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]=
e.org">[email protected]</a>&gt; a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:<br></div><blockq=
uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1p=
x solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>hi!<div>I created=C2=A0<a h=
ref=3D"https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-362" target=3D"_blank">h=
ttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-362</a>=C2=A0for removing the ma=
ven plugin from xbean.</div><div><br></div><div>Please should out if one is=
 still using it (which I doubt).</div><div><p>Afaiu the maven-xbean-plugin =
exists to create spring XML definitions for spring 2. This is stone old and=
 not a supported spring environment for more than a decade.</p><p>We should=
 imo just remove it. It is btw also named wrongly. Since around 2008 a conv=
ention exists that only Maven own plugins should be named maven-*-plugin. O=
ther projects should use project-maven-plugin as naming scheme.</p><p><br><=
/p><p>LieGrue,</p><p>strub</p><p><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div>

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