Maven/build help

[Marc Lijour]

I try to get into maven to build xwiki but I don't find any doc on xwiki.org.

When I checked out xwiki/trunk as a project in eclipse and I enable the maven2 
plugin, it starts downloading a bunch of stuff and it complains about 2 items 
(see log below). Is that normal? Did I checked out everything I need?

Is everybody using maven2 or ant or something else?

A few pointers would be nice. Thanks.
(I still wonder why it has to download stuff since everything is available in 
the svn repository. Actually it would be a good idea to keep the libraries 
aside, in another folder, if they have to be re-used in different places but 
then why keeping them in the repository as well?)

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1/2/07 4:59:04 PM EST: [WARN] Unable to get resource from repository xwiki 
(http://maven.xwiki.org)
1/2/07 4:59:05 PM EST: [WARN] Unable to get resource from repository xwiki 
(http://maven.xwiki.org)
1/2/07 4:59:05 PM EST: Failed to run generate source goals /xwiki - 
trunk/wikis/default/pom.xml Missing:
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1) com.xpn.xwiki:xwiki-build-xar-handlers:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT

  Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

  Then, install it using the command: 
      mvn 
install:install-file -DgroupId=com.xpn.xwiki -DartifactId=xwiki-build-xar-handlers 
\
          -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

  Path to dependency: 
  	1) com.xpn.xwiki:xwiki-wiki-default:xar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
  	2) com.xpn.xwiki:xwiki-build-xar-handlers:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT

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1 required artifact is missing.

for artifact: 
  com.xpn.xwiki:xwiki-wiki-default:xar:1.0-SNAPSHOT

from the specified remote repositories:
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
  xwiki (http://maven.xwiki.org)
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