Wayne is absolutely right ( and one of the best resources in the forum).
Maven imposes a very rigid way of organizing software development.
If you fight it, you will lose.
You can prolong the date of final defeat but you will lose.
If you want to gain the productivity that Maven can give:
1) Learn the "Maven way".
2) Follow the "Maven way".
3) Get a Maven repo installed. I like Nexus but others are available.
4) Don't try to treat Maven as Ant or some other scripting language.
5) If it is too hard, you are not doing it right.
6) Don't be afraid to have many projects that depend on each other.
7) Build and test your low level libraries and then reference them in
higher level projects as dependencies as if someone else had written
them. That is, expect that they are tested and working according to a
specification and come with a warranty. If not, fix them before using them.
If you do this, you will love Maven.
If you are not prepared to do this, use another tool.
Maven will either make you do things the Maven way or force you to
abandon it for another approach.
Fighting Maven is a lost cause.
Ron
On 20/07/2011 10:56 PM, Wayne Fay wrote:
Yes, I understand I don't have to have to depend on C from product X, but do
I need to include it as a module?
You are getting modules, dependencies and artifacts mixed up.
The module concept is simply a convenient way for building an
application which is composed of several parts.
Say top (parent) project A has modules B and C
In sum those 3 projects produce artifacts A (perhaps via assembly
plugin), B and C.
Then in project X, if you need to use functionality provided by
artifact B, then you add a dependency on B. You would not actually
move the project B to be under X, simply add a dependency to the
artifact produced by project B.
As Barrie has already stated multiple times, you really must stop your
work and read an eBook on Maven so this is all much clearer. You have
skipped some important early steps in trying to learn Maven.
Wayne
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