Re: Can mvn release:prepare be overridden to allow SNAPSHOTs?

Hi Matthew, I have gotten around this problem by deploying the SNAPSHOT projects in question to an internal repository, after first renaming their versions from X.X.X-SNAPSHOT to X.X.X-myco-X (or something similar). This can get messy, since SNAPSHOTs sometimes depend on other SNAPSHOTs, and

Re: Invoke a plug-in/goal configured in a pom.xml from cmd line

Hi Farhan, I don't know how to do exactly what you want, but you can do something close with a profile. If you put the antrun execution (or any other execution) in a profile with no explicit activation spec, and bind it to a really early phase (say, the initialize phase), then you can invoke it

Re: More than one test source directory

Hi Vihung, What you want is build-helper-maven-plugin:add-test-source http://mojo.codehaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/ Steve Vihung Marathe wrote: Am I missing something, or is it not possible to specify more then one directory as a test source directory? I am working with an existing

Re: [m2] ant-contrib in Maven?

Hi Mick, According to the Sonatype book http://www.sonatype.com/book/lifecycle.html#a_structure_for_goal_execution, the artifactId should be ant-contrib. Steve Mick Knutson wrote: I want to use the ant-run plugin and my ant task relies upon ant-contrib but I can seem to find it in ibiblio in

Re: Associate an ID with a goal and call it independently

Hi Farhan, I think you can do what you want with a profile: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html If you put your plugin's settings in a profile, then you could then use a cmdline something like: mvn -P profile-id plugin:goal Steve Farhan Sarwar wrote:

Re: Remote respository

Hi Mathias, In Maven parlance, what you want is called an Internal Repository. See the Maven intro to repos for some discussion: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html Steve Mathias P.W Nilsson wrote: I think I better explain this a little better

Re: Resources and JUnit

Ray Wenderlich wrote: I am using Maven 2.0.8. Wow, where can I get me one of them? :) (2.0.7 is the most recent release.) Steve - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Code Obfuscator

Proguard: http://pyx4me.com/pyx4me-maven-plugins/proguard-maven-plugin/introduction.html Steve Vihung Marathe wrote: Does anyone know of a code obfuscator [commercial or otherwise] plugin that can be incorporated into a Maven build? It seems to make sense to do this as part of a release

Re: Passing System Variables to Maven

Hi David, I have used an antrun plugin execution to generate a timestamp properties file in the initialize phase, like this: properties ... generated-resources-dir target/generated-resources /generated-resources-dir ... /properties build ... plugins ... plugin

Re: Generate Version class

Hi Francois, Francois Fernandes wrote: for some time now I've been looking for a easy way to generate a simple class containing version information of our artifact. I know that it is possible to filter resources. But to avoid any resource loading issues I would like maven to generate such a

Re: Maven dependencies issues

Hi Dmitry, Dmitry wrote: My application is a jar file and when I run mvn package it generates my jar ok. But I need to distribute my app with all the related jar dependencies so I wonder how could I do it with maven2.. Actually, I did an ant task that at package cycle copy my project

Re: Maven Source filtering issue

Hi Dmitry, Dmitry wrote: I want to be able to interpolate ${pom.version} in Java source code before compilation. How can I do this (Eclipse IDE)? I see that there is a simple way to turn on resource filtering, but that does not appear to be applicable to source code. I also see that the

Re: Rép. : RE: may not be thi s project's POM [ from cocoon-users ]

Hi Robin, Have you tried turning off all of your anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc. software? Sometimes these helpers silently disable network functionality. Once you've determined that it is one of these, you should be able to figure out how to tell it to allow traffic through for the apps you

Re: property dependent resources

Hi Severin, Here's an undocumented profiles trick: profiles profile idundefined-property-value/id activation property name!my.property.name/name /property /activation properties my.property.namedefault-value-here/my.property.name /properties

Re: Profile activation - release

Hi Barrett, Here's what I do in this situation: plugin artifactIdmaven-release-plugin/artifactId configuration ... arguments-Pmy.release.profile/arguments /configuration /plugin the -Pprofile-id argument activates profile-id when the release:* goals are run. Steve Barrett Nuzum

Re: property dependent resources

Hi Severin, Here's an undocumented profiles trick: profiles profile idundefined-property-value/id activation property name!my.property.name/name /property /activation properties my.property.namedefault-value-here/my.property.name /properties

Re: Installer Scripts Best Practice

Hi Rogrigo, Rodrigo Madera wrote: I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion on the best practice to execute post-build scripts, such as copying output files to a template directory for installer generation. Right now I'm using a shell script to do the copying and calling my

Re: Installer Scripts Best Practice

Hi Rodrigo, On 7/13/07, Rodrigo Madera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is using Ant scripts really acceptable from a Maven good-practice point of view? maven-antrun-plugin copy tasks are the conventional means for moving files around, mostly because Maven 2 does not provide a generalized facility for

Re: Failed to validate POM warning

Hi Joël, Have you tried using the -X option to mvn? It might give more details on the problem. I checked your SapiensCommonsCore POM against maven-4.0.0.xsd, and it appears to be valid, but you don't have a groupId there - are you expecting to inherit it from the parent? It might also be

Re: How to diagnose false unsatisfied dependency messages?

Hi Brian, Sounds like you're using Maven 1.X (I'm guessing because you refer to .maven/cache/, a 1.X phenomenon) - you should know that at least 95% of the traffic on this mailing list has to do with Maven 2.X, and that people will assume that that's what you're using unless you say otherwise.

Re: Almost done

Hi Jon, release:perform mostly does what you want - it checks out a clean working copy from the tag created by release:prepare, and then does the stuff you tell it to. So, you can tell it to do stuff like you want. Take a look at the goals parameter to the maven-release-plugin:

Re: Problem using custom announcement with changes plugin

Hi Dennis, Why not use /src/changes/ instead of /src/main/resources/ ? By default, for jar packaging anyway, everything /src/main/resources/ will be put into the artifact, but why would anybody ever want an email announcement template in the artifact? Just curious, Steve Dennis Lundberg wrote:

Re: how to get pom name into site documentation?

Hi Mick, From http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/MavenPropertiesGuide: ${project.name} or ${pom.name} refers to the name of the project. Steve Mick Knutson wrote: I want to take: nameMIS File Intake/name and add it to site.xml: menu name=${name} But want to know what to

Re: Use native CVS by default

Hi Daniel, The plugin docs reveal all; from http://maven.apache.org/scm/plugins/examples/scm-advance-features.html: If you want to change the default scm provider implementation, for exemple you want to use the native cvs instead of the pure java implementation, you must configure

Re: Current CVS tag

Hi Peter, Just to make sure terminology is in sync: local repository in Maven-speak is the cache Maven uses for project dependencies (plugins and external libraries), and is managed by Maven. Is this what you mean when you say local repository? If so, then what are you doing with CVS and

Re: Missing poms

Hi Niraj, I can't claim to know what's going on, but until you provide Maven version numbers for before and after the strict checking started happening, I'm certain that no-one will be able to help. Steve Alok, Niraj wrote: Hi, We found an issue where we had pom files missing from the

Re: To replace M4 files and Make files using Maven

file. The reason we do this is we build the tar ball on one build box push it on to PROD servers. We run a make on each PROD server which will invoke M4 and the M4 will generate the files specific to that server. Regards, Nagesh Steven Rowe wrote: Nagesh, If you could be more

Re: problem in release:prepare

Hi Javier, Specify tagBasehttp://server/autentia/tags/tagBase in the configuration for maven-release-plugin, and make sure that this directory exists in the repository - Subversion refuses to make a tag in a directory which is not already in the repository. Steve javijava wrote: Thanks to

Re: Deploy Jar to maven repo without sources and pom being exposed

Try adding useReleaseProfilefalse/useReleaseProfile to the configuration for maven-release-plugin. According to: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/perform-mojo.html useReleaseProfile: boolean [default: true] Whether to use the release profile that adds sources and

Re: To replace M4 files and Make files using Maven

Hi Nagesh, Here are some places to start: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html http://www.sonatype.com/book/profiles.html Steve nash4403 wrote: We have different environments like DEV,QA,STAGE and PRODUCTION. We have m4 files which generate the content

Re: To replace M4 files and Make files using Maven

Steven Rowe wrote: Hi Nagesh, Here are some places to start: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html http://www.sonatype.com/book/profiles.html Steve nash4403 wrote: We have different environments like DEV,QA,STAGE and PRODUCTION. We have m4

Re: Using Maven to Rename a Package

Hi Jason, Ferguson, Jason M TSgt 375 CSPTS/SCE wrote: executions execution phaseinitialize/phase configuration goals goalrun/goal /goals The goals

Re: Including other files in site

Hi Daniel, Siegmann Daniel, NY wrote: I tried placing a .doc file in the ./src/site directory, and in the ./src/site/xdoc directory. However, it was not copied over to the target directory when I run site. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? From

Re: [M2] cobertura-maven-plugin: cobertura.ser does not exist

Hi R.C., If your project has no real sources, then you don't need the reporting provided by coberatura-maven-plugin, right? Just remove mention of it from the buildreporting section of your POM. Steve CodingPlayer wrote: Hi, i'm trying to run 'mvn site' for my archetype-project, but always

Re: URGENT: Renaming files during compile time

How about maven-antrun-plugin, using the Ant copy task? About the variable naming, it depends on where the information comes from - can it be set on the cmdline? Is it available as an environment variable? Profiles are a standard Maven mechanism to get the build to respond differently to

Re: conditional reporting ...

Hi Giovanni, Giovanni Azua wrote: ... I wanted to activate the SCM report plugin only on demand e.g. mvn clean install site -Dgenerate.statsvn=true ... reporting plugins j:if test=${context.getVariable('generate.scm')=='true'} ant:echoGenerating StatSVN report using

Re: CDATA in properties

Hi Greg, Greg Thompson wrote: In my javadoc-plugin configuration, I currently have something along the lines of: bottom![CDATA[somestuff copy; 2007 somestuff.]]/bottom For various reasons, I'd like to move the value into a property. So I've added this to my pom's properties:

Re: CDATA in properties

Greg Thompson wrote: Steven Rowe wrote: Have you tried to add one or more levels to the entity expansion? E.g., specify the following in your properties section: jdBottom![CDATA[somestuff amp;copy; 2007 somestuff.]]/jdBottom Or equivalently: jdBottomsomestuff amp;amp;copy; 2007

Re: Interpolated expression to reference configuration elements of another plugin

Hi Olivier, Olivier Dehon wrote: What ${} expression should I use in my POM or Mojo to reference configuration values of another plugin? This doesn't directly answer your question, but since it's not clear exactly what problem you're trying to solve, here's a solution to a different problem :)

Re: What is this? What I have to do to fix?

Maybe you're talking about transitive dependencies? Here's an interesting blog entry from Carlos Sanchez that describes the situation: http://jroller.com/page/carlossg?entry=using_transitive_dependecies_the_right Steve ScottBrank wrote: other thing i want to know.. my project has a lot of

Re: Set alternate location for .m2

Hi Brian, Ehmann, Brian wrote: Can someone tell me how to specify a custom location of the .m2 directory? I need to put this folder outside of the user.home directory. PROMPT$ mvn --help usage: mvn [options] [goal(s)] [phase(s)] Options: [snip] -s,--settings Alternate path

Re: scm checkout with specific tag

Hi Gonzalo, Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez wrote: I've followed the instructions using scmType / scmVersion, but have had no success at all, any hints please? What is no success? Did you get any error messages? Or any output at all? Steve

Re: scm checkout with specific tag

Did you specify scmVersionType=tag ? Also, what type of repository are you trying to download from? Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez wrote: I just got checked out the latest version of every file, not the specified in the scmVersion parameter. On 15/06/07, Steven Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: scm checkout with specific tag

scm:checkout -DscmVersion=myversion -DscmVersionType=tag On 15/06/07, Steven Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you specify scmVersionType=tag ? Also, what type of repository are you trying to download from? Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez wrote: I just got checked out the latest version of every file

Re: [Maven Properties] : Using a filter property directly in my pom.xml

Hi David, Bernier David wrote: I'm a new user on Maven since few weeks and i'd like to know how can i use a property defined in a filter properties file directly in my pom.xml ? [snip] How can i use an external file containg my property used in the pom.xml in an another ways than defining

Re: How to parse pom.version

Hi Libor, Libor Kramoliš wrote: Is it possible to make some properties hook to enhance set of properties after pom reading and before starting of first goal execution of any lifecycle/phase? You could take a look at the source for the properties-maven-plugin, which injects properties read

Re: Comprehensive list of packaging types?

Hi Greg, Greg Thompson wrote: Is there a complete list of packaging types? There's a bigger list (though perhaps a bit dated) here: http://cvs.peopleware.be/training/maven/maven2/buildLifecyclePhases.html Steve - To

Re: Lifecycle Question

Hi Jens, Jens Hohl wrote: when i only compile my multiproject which also contains an war module I get an error when the WAR is module ist compiled that there are missing dependencies. Is that correct ? The war simply have to compile small amount of code against already compiled sourcecode

Re: Mail on release

Hey Y., gc134728 wrote: If i perform a release using the maven release plugin can automate it to send a mail to a developers list? and I like to have different mailing lists some projects need to inform everybode on release and some project just by a select number of people. I use the

Re: Tag source code in CVS with Maven version number

Hi Shoe, The maven-release-plugin has functionality to do this sort of thing, though I'm not sure how you would combine it with continuous integration: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/ Steve Shoe wrote: Gang Thanks in advance for your help. I want to set up my

Re: M2 classpath generation

This Appassembler plugin will do this and more: http://mojo.codehaus.org/appassembler/appassembler-maven-plugin/ Jon Strayer wrote: I'm currently using maven 2. Most of our applications are batch applications that run from cron via a bash script. I've written a plugin that (among other

Re: M2 classpath generation

/6/07, Steven Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This Appassembler plugin will do this and more: http://mojo.codehaus.org/appassembler/appassembler-maven-plugin/ Jon Strayer wrote: I'm currently using maven 2. Most of our applications are batch applications that run from cron via a bash script

Re: Overriding Plugin settings in a child POM

Hi Jerome, This JIRA issue looks like it's related (suggestion of adding a reportingManagement section to the POM): http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1931 Steve Jerome Thibaud wrote: Hi All, using: Maven 2.0.4 I defined the checkstyle reporting plugin in my parent pom, and for a

Re: m2: add new project to scm:svn

Hi Robert, I don't directly use the scm plugin, but Subversion's usage model requires you to add things before you can checkin them. So maybe what you're looking for is scm:add?: http://maven.apache.org/scm/plugins/add-mojo.html Why aren't you using the subversion executable directly,

Re: maven-release-plugin: Unable to find the mojo perform

Hi Graham, I'm guessing that the exception started soon after you upgraded the version of the release plugin installed in your local repository (probably via mvn -U or -cpu). Wierdnesses like this seem to often have at their root a corrupted local repository. Have you tried removing your local

Re: plugin shorthand not working as expected

Have you tried removing your entire local repo? That seems to fix lots of problems... Steve ertnutler wrote: I've read through and followed this: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-prefix-mapping.html I have a custom plugin whose groupId I've configured in a

Re: Doing multiple filters

Hi Ian, [Warning: Following is untested.] I don't know about the best way, but I think you should be able to set up an execution for each of the filterings you want to do, something like: build ... plugins ... plugin artifactIdmaven-resources-plugin/artifactId executions

Re: automatically download dependecies

Hi Advait, How about: mvn initialize myplugin:mygoal (where you fill in myplugin and mygoal with your specific info) Steve Advait Trivedi wrote: I have a POM containing dependencies. I run some plugin goals which are not bound to any lifecycle phase from this directory. Maven does not

Re: [m2] Specify modules on command line?

Hi Richard, As far as I know, Maven does not have direct support for what you want. But lots of people have been asking for just this functionality recently. See http://www.nabble.com/Specify-a-dynamic-profile-t3754208s177.html for a discussion of some workarounds. Steve Richard Allen wrote:

Re: [m2] Problem extending a MOJO: incongruency in default @parameter value

Hi Alessio, I'm a Maven newbie, and am only responding because no one else has... I have seen a couple of messages to the effect that plugin extension is not supported by the Maven architecture. See this thread for a couple of workarounds:

Re: jaxb2-maven-plugin

Hi Vidya, You will probably get a quicker response from the Mojo Project mailing lists for questions about Mojo Project plugins: http://mojo.codehaus.org/jaxb2-maven-plugin/mail-lists.html Steve Vidya Mahavadi wrote: Hi, I am using jaxb2-maven-plugin and in the application I would like

Re: Add and Label Artifact in SCM after Release:Perform

Hi Neil, My approach for a similar issue was to create a plugin with the necessary functionality, then add the goal to the configuration for maven-release-plugin in my POM, e.g.: plugin artifactIdmaven-release-plugin/artifactId configuration goalsdeploy site-deploy myplugin:mygoal/goals

Re: Novice User Question

Hi Averill, What exactly do you mean by append each jar? To what? What outcome are you looking for? I think (over)writing the jar file in the repository is exactly what is meant by adding jar files to the local repository. Maybe your terminology is causing miscommunication. The main point of

Re: Determining project.version from maven-release-plugin

Hi William, The way I do this is by reading in the release.properties file that release:prepare generates, something like: import java.util.Properties; ... Properties releaseProps = new Properties(); releaseProps.load(new FileInputStream(release.properties)); String

Re: Maven throwing Exception

Hi Smitha, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting the following exception when trying to execute mvn clean install [...] [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found Looks to me like Maven can't connect to the central

Re: Please help - why doesn't my index.html get generated when generating my site?

Hi Ian, I think (though you haven't said anything about your setup) that you don't have a site descriptor, the default location for which is src/site/site.xml. See http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-site.html for info about what can go in there. Here's a quick vanilla site descriptor

Re: Getting maven to run a file after install

Are you using Mevenide2-Netbeans (and hence Maven 2.0.X)? If so, you can use the exec-maven-plugin[1], bound (in pom.xml) to the install (compile) phase to achieve what you want. If you're using Mevenide for Maven 1.X, you could set up a pre-goal to do what you want, in maven.xml. Hope it

Re: Cleaning before assembly

Hi Jose, maven-clean-plugin's clean goal can clean other directories besides the default - see http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html Steve Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: Hi, Can someone point me at the correct way to tell Maven's assembly or

Re: command line variable overrides

Hi Adam, You could interpolate ${url} in your tomcat-maven-plugin configuration: build plugins plugin groupIdorg.codehaus.mojo/groupId artifactIdtomcat-maven-plugin/artifactId configuration url${url}/url /configuration /plugin /plugins /build and then

Source filtering

Hi, I want to be able to interpolate ${pom.version} in Java source code before compilation. How can I do this? I see that there is a simple way to turn on resource filtering, but that does not appear to be applicable to source code. I also see that the process-sources phase is where source

Test classpath

Under Maven v2.0.6, with Surefire plugin v2.3, the directory containing the .class files generated by the test-compile phase (${basedir}/target/test-classes/) is not included in java.class.path when I run mvn test. (I got this info from the target/surefire-reports/TEST-MyClass.xml file for a

Re: [m2] exec-maven-plugin java goal stops the build lifecycle

Hi Adrian, How are you invoking Maven? mvn package? (or some lifecycle phase after process-test-resources)? Steve Adrian Herscu wrote: Hi all, I am using the exec-maven-plugin to run some Java program. The java goal is bound to the process-test-resource build phase. The

RE: NPE in PluginXDocGenerator while creating plugin site

I'm running into (what appears to be) the exact same problem that Tom Huybrechts described a few months ago, with Maven v2.0.6 and maven-site-plugin v2.0-beta-5. Tom, did you ever resolve this problem? I also attempted (without success) to use maven-site-plugin v2.0-SNAPSHOT, but it failed with

Re: pass-in external variables to be used by POM

How about: plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-ear-plugin/artifactId configuration archive manifestEntries Build-Version${version}/Build-Version /manifestEntries /archive /configuration /plugin And

release plugin lifecycle binding

Hello, I want to bind a custom plugin goal to a phase in the maven-release-plugin's lifecycle, but when I attempt to do so, the binding appears to be ignored: build plugins plugin groupIdmy.group/groupId artifactIdmy-maven-plugin/artifactId executions

Re: q on mvn dependency plugin

Hi Davis, There is source code for a plugin named maven-buildinfo-plugin, included with the free book Better Builds with Maven, that seems to do something like what you want (and then some). The source is in the Chapter5 .zip file[1]. Caveat coder: you may need to read Chapter 5 to understand

release:perform vs. scm:bootstrap

Hi, I'm in the process of converting my (small) organization's Maven 1.X infrastructure to Maven 2. As a Maven 2 newbie, I'm curious about the differences between release:perform and scm:bootstrap, and the reasons why both of these apparently very similar goals co-exist in Maven2. The latter

Re: Release plugin: able to create branches?

I'm guessing that you use a non-Subversion repository, since Subversion makes no distinction between branches and tags (or any other directory, for that matter) -- the distinction is maintained outside the repository, in the minds of the people who adopt a policy to associate branching activity

Re: Getting frustrated with maven2

You should create a plugins tag inside your build tag, then put the plugin tag for xdoclet configurion inside of the plugins tag. See http://maven.apache.org/pom.html. Steve Peter L. Berghold wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:10 -0700, Carlos Sanchez wrote: for what you say your frustrations