I have used profiles activated by the presence of the pom.xml file in the sub-module
so you have if A/pom.xml exists then add module A if B/pom.xml exists then add module B -Stephen On 9 November 2010 20:59, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> wrote: > You can use profiles to enable the optional building of submodules (you can > use a top-level aggregating pom if the projects are distinct). Note that, if > you have built a module locally, maven will use the version from your local > repo if it is newer than a deployed version. If not built locally, maven > will download the dependency from a remote repo. I think this is what you > want. > > When you run maven, specify -P options to enable profiles to turn on > optional submodules. You can have multiple profiles active at once: > http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html > > As an example, GeoTools and GeoServer use profiles to enable the building of > optional plugins. Here is the pom for unsupported GeoTools plugins: > http://svn.osgeo.org/geotools/trunk/modules/unsupported/pom.xml > > A similar technique is used for GeoServer extensions: > https://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/src/extension/pom.xml > > Kind regards, > Ben. > > On 10/11/10 06:36, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote: >> >> I currently work on a large enterprise app built with Ant. The app is >> divided into several projects divided into functional areas. In order >> to build the entire EAR, all of the projects have to be built, even if >> you're only working on a single one of those projects. >> >> I'm examining how we could make this work better if we were using Maven. >> >> I guess a straightforward implementation of this would have a main >> project POM that specifies all the subprojects as submodules, and also >> their artifacts as dependencies. >> >> It almost seems to me that what I need is the ability to have the main >> POM be somewhat "dynamic", such that if I'm only working on a single one >> of those subprojects, but I need to assemble the EAR containing all of >> the artifacts, then the projects that I don't have checked out would get >> their submodule entry temporarily deleted, and I would get their >> artifacts from the intranet repo. >> >> I would be using m2eclipse. >> >> Does any of this make sense? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> > Software Engineering Team Leader > CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering > Australian Resources Research Centre > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
