Also that way of using tomcat is really just relying on rebuilding the
artifacts again
On 12 March 2013 09:29, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:24 AM, maven apache <apachemav...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > I am using maven3 as my J2EE application build tool.
> >
> > Now I meet some problem during my development --- I found it is so
> > inflexible to do the test or debug in the multiple modules.
> >
> > For example, I have a parent maven project whose pom.xml is like this:
> >
> > <modules>
> > <module>app-common</module>
> > <module>app-webapp</module>
> > </modules>
> >
> > And the app-common/pom.xml:
> >
> > <package>jar</package>
> >
> >
> > the app-webapp/pom.xml:
> >
> > <package>war</package>
> > <dependency>
> > <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
> > <artifactId>app-common</artifactId>
> > <version>${project.version}</version>
> > </dependency>
> > <build>
> > <finalName>app</finalName>
> > <plugins>
> > <plugin>
> > <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
> > <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
> > <configuration>
> > <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
> > <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
> > <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
> > </configuration>
> > </plugin>
> > </plugins>
> > </build>
> >
> > Now,the app-common project hold all the classed for the whole
> > application,and the app-webapp is responsible for the presentation.
> >
> > As you can see I use the jetty to set up the web application.
> >
> > However, each time I make some change inside the project app-common, the
> > jetty can not detect it which means that I have to run the "mvn install"
> > under the parent project,and restart the jetty to see the update. This is
> > too inflexible.
> >
> > So I wonder how do you guys do this kind of development?
> >
>
>
> I don't use Jetty for multi-module builds; see
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-1517
> The tomcat-maven-plugin (starting with 2.0) works great for multimodule
> builds; see
>
> http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.1/run-mojo-features.html#Maven_project_structure
>
> --
> Thomas Broyer
> /tɔ.ma.bʁwa.je/ <http://xn--nna.ma.xn--bwa-xxb.je/> <
> http://xn--nna.ma.xn--bwa-xxb.je/>
>
