Johannes Schneider (cedarsoft GmbH) about Java and related stuff

Some time ago a new big release for the site plugin has been done.
Unfortunately they have introduced a small bug:

The table tags now contain the alignment attribute set to “left”.

This results to some strange bugs. Take a look at that page:
http://fest.easytesting.org/javafx/maven/compile-mojo.html

Look at the background of the table. The following h3 gets resized and its background is drawn behind the table…

To fix it, just add those lines to the CSS:

Ever had to deal with a really, really huge pom.xml? As soon as you start not only to declare the dependencies but also to add informations about the distribution (repositories, site), mailinglists or developers, the pom.xml starts to become really huge.

It is hard to find the informations you search. And it is much harder to find that revision a dependecy has changed if there is so much noise due to changes in other sections.
Many applications with huge configuration files started to convert their files into directories over the last years. Apache now has its “conf.d” directory, crontab uses “cron.d” and so on.

Why not take the same step, too? Why not split up the pom.xml into several files that are placed within a directory called “pom.d”?
So I have created a proposal for Maven 2.1.

What do you think?