I'm still thinking that the xml file should be in foo/secondModule, because
that's the package of the second module class (that extends the one in
firstModule).
/Anders
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:52, smallufo <small...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/6/7 Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net>
> >
> > Could it be that it is looking for Data.xml at path
> > foo/secondModule/Data.xml. I'm guessing that this is a plain Java thing
> and
> > not related to Maven.
> >
> > /Anders
>
>
> Hi
> To solve this problem , I tried to use maven-dependency-plugin:unpack to
> solve my problem :
> In my secondModule's POM , I added these snippets :
>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>2.1</version>
> <executions>
> <execution>
> <id>data-copying</id>
> <phase>test-compile</phase>
> <goals>
> <goal>unpack</goal>
> </goals>
> <configuration>
> <artifactItems>
> <artifactItem>
> <groupId>foo</groupId>
> <artifactId>firstModule</artifactId>
> <type>jar</type>
> <includes>foo/firstModule/Data.xml</includes>
>
> <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</outputDirectory>
> </artifactItem>
> </artifactItems>
> </configuration>
> </execution>
> </executions>
> </plugin>
>
> In this POM file , I try to unpack the first module , and copy the Data.xml
> to classes/foo/firstModule/ directory , and then run tests.
> And indeed , it is copied to the right directory , I can find the
> "Data.xml"
> file in "target/classes/foo/firstModule" directory.
> But maven test still complains it cannot read the File
> (Properties.loadFromXML() throws NPE).
>
> I tried other output directory , such as
> ${project.build.directory}/resources , and
> ${project.build.directory}/test-classes , but all in vain...
>
