Hi Brian - the way I used Maven reactor is similar to the way you have it. I have a few sub projects and the main project is just a shell which executes the sub projects. Based on the dependencies, the sub projects are executed in the right order (that is so cool).
In your case I'm not sure if you can specify more filters in your reactor tag for includes and excludes to get only the projects you want done. Say if you have 5 projects (A, B, C, D, E) and project A depends on artifacts from B, and C, in your outer maven empty project I think you can write the maven:reactor tag to point to project A, and exclude any project.xml's found in the path to project D and E. I haven't tried that myself but it's worth trying. Hope this helps, Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Hartin, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:46 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Beginner's question about reactor > > > I've just started using Maven and I'm having trouble with > multiproject builds using reactor. Suppose I don't have a > main project with subprojects, but rather a set of projects > and dependencies between them, and I want to be able to build > a particular project, recursively building its dependencies > if necessary? The examples I've seen have all assumed that > we have a 'main' project, with no dependencies in its > project.xml file, and that it's got a goal in maven.xml which > uses the reactor to build all its subprojects in the correct order. > > Can this be accomplished? > > Thanks, > > Brian Hartin > NCS Pearson > Iowa City, IA > USA > > "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are > built for." - John Shedd > http://www.digitalconsumer.org/bill.html **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, Please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. **************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
