Re: creating a property and filtering the path only once

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Wexler
I hear you, I just really wanted to avoid that because this is definitely not an artifact. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Ansgar Konermann < ansgar.konerm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > From my experience: that's a hard problem. I ended up making the resource > an artifact, adding a "provided"-sc

Re: creating a property and filtering the path only once

2012-04-26 Thread Ansgar Konermann
>From my experience: that's a hard problem. I ended up making the resource an artifact, adding a "provided"-scoped dependency and switched off deployment using m-deploy-p's skip config parameter. Works, but is so ugly. Not sure if the provided dependency would be allowed in Maven Central though (

Re: creating a property and filtering the path only once

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Wexler
Well this item isn't an artifact and I don't want to make one out of it. I tried another approach which was to declare the resource w/o the basedir reference in my parent pom: \src\main\MySpecialResource Then I referenced it like so with the ${project.parent.basedir} preceding the resource pro

Re: creating a property and filtering the path only once

2012-04-26 Thread Ansgar Konermann
Common approach: put your special resource in a jar module. Let the modules which should have access to the resource define a dependency to that jar. If this approach does not work, please elaborate. Best regards, Ansgar Am 26.04.2012 20:36 schrieb "Ryan Wexler" : > I have a large library resou

creating a property and filtering the path only once

2012-04-26 Thread Ryan Wexler
I have a large library resource that is used during my build that is accessed from many of my modules. I have put that resource in the top level parent basedir /src/main/MySpecialResource. I want all the modules in my project to have access to the location of this resource. So I created a proper