On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 03:25 -0500, Gautham Pamu wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have strange scenario. I have two web projects, one web project A is > accesing code from another web project B. Since > RAD allows it, the developer add the dependency on another web project in > RAD. > > Even though I defined the dependency in pom.xml between the web projects, > the second web project A is not able > to see the classes from ther other webproject. How should I define the > dependency for this project....
In order for project A to have a dependency on a jar, it needs to be able to point to that jar in the local maven repository. However when a "war" project is installed into a repository, it is the .war that is installed; there is therefore nothing suitable for A to point to. I guess it's possible to use "brute force". The maven-assembly-plugin allows you to build a jarfile containing whatever you want from the project. And the maven-install-plugin allows you to install whatever artifacts you want into the local repository. You could therefore attach a custom assembly definition to the "assemble" phase, and a custom install definition to the "install" phase, using <execute> tags. It's quite common to generate "variants" of projects (sorry, there's some maven terminology for this which I can't remember for the moment). For example, a jar project can build foo.jar plus variants like foo-src.jar, foo-jdk14.jar, etc. Anyone know if this mechanism could be used to add a jarfile of the classes for a webapp (or some subset of them) as one of its generated artifacts? Or is it done just like the approach described above? Otherwise I think you *have* to split up project B into two parts: a "jar" project and a "war" project. Both A and b-war can then depend on B-jar. It's certainly the cleanest solution. NB: I'm no maven guru; any or all of the above could be wrong :-) Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
