"Trent Rosenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the following multi-module project structure as seen within the > maven documentation. > > parent > |-pom.xml > | > |-moduleJar > | |-pom.xml > | > |-moduleWar > |-pom.xml > > When I build the maven projects at the parent level the latest version > moduleJar is built and then placed in the WEB-INF/lib folder of > moduleWar. If I build, (mvn package) at sub module level within > moduleJar I get a build succesful and only the moduleJar is built, (as > expected). If I build again at the sub module level within the > moduleWar project I get a build failure because it cannot locate an > instance of moduleJar within the repos and tells me to install it > through the standard manual process. This was not expected. >
Hello, When you do 'mvn package', you do not put the artifact into the local repository. You need to 'mvn install' for this to work. > Having set the picture above, I would have expected moduleWar to have > used the information in the parent pom.xml to understand that the > project had to compile moduleJar and then include it within the > WEB-INF/lib folder. If the parentpom.xml file did not reference > moduleJar as a sub module then I would ahve expected Maven to search > the repos. As it standands if I worked within moduleWar with some > plugins, e.g. jetty and tomcat then I need to complete a mvn install > on moduleJar everytime I make a chnage to the sub module so it is > picked up in moduleWar. Yes. > > I have looked through my archived store of emails from the list and > cannot seem to find the righ answers. I might be searching with the > wrong criteria. Would anyone be able to explain why maven has this > behaviour? > There is no 'why' I think. It just works that way : dependencies are resolved agains repo, not parent pom. Not sure that helps :-) -- OQube < software engineering \ génie logiciel > Arnaud Bailly, Dr. \web> http://www.oqube.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
