Sounds to me like Client depends on Server depends on Common.
Thus: common/pom.xml <dependencies>...none...</dependencies> server/pom.xml <dependencies>...common...</dependencies> client/pom.xml <dependencies>...server, common...</dependencies> or <dependencies>...server...</dependencies> and common will be pulled in via transitive dependencies Is there a reason you can't set things up like this, or why this won't work for you? Wayne On 11/6/06, Petter Måhlén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I have a question concerning what I can do to force projects to be built in a specific order. There have been some previous similar queries, but they don't quite seem to apply to our situation. What we want is this: 1. 'mvn clean install' for project 'common': this leads to a jar file with common message definitions for node-node communication being updated. 2. 'mvn clean install' for project 'server': we have written a simple Maven plugin that reads the message definitions, and generates source code that parses/packages the messages. 3. 'ant clean test' for project 'client': this again generates source code for parsing/packaging messages, but this time for the client. Is it possible for us to specify this order somehow? As it is, the builds will more or less randomly fail depending on which order they are executed in. It may be relevant that the 'server->common' dependency is configured like so: <project> ... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>se.jadestone.whine</groupId> <artifactId>maven-whine-generator</artifactId> <version>3.0</version> ... <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>se.jadestone.esports</groupId> <artifactId>hc-common</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> ... The 'common' jar must be available on the classpath of the plugin that generates source code, and like this, it is only available at that point, which is great since we don't want to include it in the shipped product. Thanks for any help, Petter Cell: +46 704 40 30 25 Direct: +46 8 442 75 95 Fax: +46 8 24 05 08 www.jadestone.se Björns Trädgårdsgränd 1, 116 21 Stockholm, Sweden