Hi Wendy, Thank you for the helpful reply! I've never used Maven on this scale before and it's a steep learning curve! I've been trying to convert a massive multi module project from ant to maven these past two weeks, it all compiles and runs unit tests now, but i've had no end of problems getting the war files to build correctly and i'm a bit worried i'm doing some of it wrong.
for example let's say i build my pdf-creation.war file. this depends on a tree-like structure of sub modules and some in-house jar files. It seems that when I build the war the sub module tree is pulled in and the in-house dependencies/jars, but i think the jars are coming from the local repo. what i would like to happen is that it sees there are new compilation changes in the jar modules, it compiles and deploys those and then will go on to pull in the rest of the sub modules to build the war. or have i got that wrong and it is actually doing as i though? is there an easy way to call the deploy plugin every time you do a package? Cheers, Adam On 6 April 2011 15:44, Wendy Smoak <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Adam Gibbons <adam.s.gibb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > At the moment I don't think the jar modules get compiled/deployed > > when i build the war. > > What makes you say that? What exactly are you doing and what happens > vs. what you expected to happen? > > Guessing, I'd say you are in one of the war subdirectories typing "mvn > install". > > In that case, no, the Maven command line is not going to go build > anything else. (If you need that to happen, I think some IDEs can > handle it for you.) > > Instead, move up a level to the top-level pom shown in Karl's example > structure, and build from there. > > Maven will then figure out the correct order and build everything for you. > > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
