RE: [Clirr-devel] maven plugin

[Vincent M. <vma...@pi...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cli...@li... [mailto:clirr-devel-
> ad...@li...] On Behalf Of Lars K=FChne
> Sent: lundi 5 juillet 2004 19:22
> To: cli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Clirr-devel] maven plugin
>=20

[snip]

>=20
> I mean toplevel modules in a Maven multiproject setup. This is =
basically
> the toplevel directory structure when you CVS-checkout clirr. Each
> module (core and maven) have a toplevel project.xml.
>=20
> Basically the multiproject plugin will search for subdirectories with
> project.xml files, cd into each of those, and build it (plus I think =
it
> will also build a couple of other things, like a wrapper website).
>=20
> Most of the current content of the root directory will be moved into =
the
> 'core' module/subdir, Vincent will fill the maven module.
>=20
> If I understand things correctly, the multiproject plugin is _the_ way
> to make Maven build multiple artifacts (jars) in one combined build.

Not quite. The Maven multiproject plugin does 2 things:
- it can call a given maven goal on a set of subprojects
- it can generate automatically a wrapper website for all subprojects
- it can generate a dependency convergence report (i.e. it lists all
dependencies - For example
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/turbine-2.4/dependency-convergence-repo=
rt.
html).

[snip]

> Yes, that is the basic java package structure. The core multiproject
> module (Vincent, please correct my terminology if necessary)=20

There are 2 things:
- plugins. They offer all the goals you can call (the goals listed when =
you
type "maven -g")
- projects. They are directories with a project.xml file and possibly a
maven.xml (for custom build code) and a project.properties =
(configuration of
the Maven plugins)

> will
> contain the above three Java top-level packages. Because each module

It's called a "project" :-)

> corresponds to one jar, this will lead to a combined jar that is easy =
to
> use, just like what we have now.

You'll need to use the Maven uberjar plugin for this (the multiproject =
has
nothing to do with this). See
http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/uberjar/

-Vincent