I'd rather suggest the newer book "Maven: The definitive Guide" by Sonatype. Better and newer... And yes, it's free. You can find it here: http://www.sonatype.com/documentation/books
/Anders On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 03:29, Wayne Fay <wayne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have two projects, Project A (war type) and Project B (jar type). > Project > > A is dependent on Project B. So, in Project A's pom.xml I mention Project > B > > as dependent. Now, Project B has just pom.xml and has no jar file > generated. > > How could I run Project B's pom.xml from Project A's pom.xml, so that > > Project B's jar file is generated and is available for Project A? > > Short answer: You can't. > > Longer answer: You can with the new reactor plugin, but I don't think > you really want to do this. Instead I'd set a parent pom up that both > inherit from, and set both as <modules> in it, and build from the top > parent. > > You would also benefit from reading "Better Builds with Maven" which > is a free PDF ebook that talks about things like this. > > Wayne > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >