The easy way to figure out what is happening is to use Eclipse/STS as
your IDE and then you have nice gui tools that will tell you where your
sources are supposed to be.
It is free and comes ready to build with maven.
It has a nice editor for pom files and a window that shows you what you
effective POM is and another that shows you your whole maven dependency
tree with nice little notes about version conflicts and which one Maven
has selected for your pleasure.
Ron
On 24/10/2013 4:23 PM, Laird Nelson wrote:
mvn help:effective-pom will spit out the pom made up of the defaults plus
anything you've overridden or added. Stand back; it's huge.
Best,
Laird
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, <rand...@kamradtfamily.net> wrote:
Maven has a 'convention over configuration' philosophy, which means that
the pom.xml doesn't need to specify paths that are in the conventional
places. So unless otherwise configured, it will look in src/main/java for
all of it's (non-test) source code. You should be able to find the
conventions listed on the maven site, or the site for a particular plug-in.
I find this very helpful in creating minimalist pom.xml files for the
standard 'make me a jar, test, document, and put it some where it can be
found' process. But it can be a pain if you don't know where the
conventional places are, and any deviation often results in a great
multitude of google searches to find the man behind the curtain.
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Trying to understand how
maven finds source
From: "Robert Dailey" <rcdailey.li...@gmail.com>
Date: 10/24/13 1:04 pm
To: "Maven" <users@maven.apache.org>
Hey everyone,
I'm trying to understand something basic, I haven't been able to find
the answer through Google surprisingly (maybe my searching abilities
suck today). How is it that Maven is able to find source code to
compile? What I would expect is the pom.xml to refer to some *.java
path (something like <source>src/main/java/*</source>), but I don't
see anything like that.
How does maven know what java source code to compile? Thanks in
advance for any help.
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