To be fair, my question is based on an implementation I have in mind for a more abstract problem. If you will indulge me a moment I'll describe that issue and maybe you will tell me my implementation is all wrong...
Consider the hypothetical project: myProject myProject/appserver myProject/database myProject/webapp Let's assume I have created a plugin (org.tragus:appserver-plugin) which I can specify in myProject/appserver/pom.xml. Further assume that if I do that I then have a goal (org.tragus:appserver-plugin:configure-appserver) which will configure my running appserver in some way (e.g. -- create connection pools and datasources and such). Similarly, pretend that I have a plugin (org.tragus:database-plugin) with a goal (...:update-schema) which will bring my live schema up-to-date with whatever recent changes I've made. This would, of course, be used by myProject/database. Finally, myProject/webapp may use org.tragus:appserver-plugin:deploy-war to deploy a war to the running appserver. These are all hypothetical plugins -- I know there exist some which already do some of these things. My question is this: How can I invoke mvn at 'myProject' such that it will recurse into each subproject and invoke the appropriate "update my live environment" goal for each one? That is, how can I invoke mvn at the top-level and have it fire org.tragus:appserver-plugin:configure-appserver within appserver, org.tragus:database-plugin:update-schema within database and org.tragus:appserver-plugin:deploy-war within webapp? FWIW I've been using maven 1 since the 0.4 days and long ago solved this with a pile of jelly-script there. I just can't seem to wrap my head around the m2 way of solving this. Now to the question in my subject line... It seems to me that if there was a maven-plugin-invoker-plugin which would invoke a property-specified plugin name my problem would be solved. I would simply set the plugin-to-execute-property appropriately in each subproject's pom.xml and then fire maven-plugin-invoker-plugin from the top level. Trouble is... I cannot find a maven-plugin-invoker-plugin :-( So, can anyone comment on my problem(s)? Am I missing something obvious and making the whole thing harder than it really is? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
