We are all still wondering _why_ you feel you need to do this forking? 2009/6/3 Tracy Hartford <tra...@zillow.com>
> I have spent some time looking into the invoker plugin, and according to > the specs, it is primarily used for integration testing. > > My original question was whether it was possible, when invoking a maven > goal on a parent POM, to force the reactor to spawn a new process for > each of the submodule executions of that goal. How can I use the invoker > to force the executions to fork? > > Assuming the invoker could be used to cause forked execution of the goal > on the subprocesses, if I were to use a <preBuildHookScript>, would the > execution of the script occur in the same process as the goal > invocation, or would it be executed in its own process, then return to > the parent process to proceed with the goal execution? > > Thanks ~ Tracy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Fox [mailto:bri...@infinity.nu] > Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 5:51 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Does reactor spawn a subprocess for each submodule? > > It runs inside the same process. You can use the invoker to fork a maven > process, but this is not usually done as you describe. Why do you want > to > fork a new process for each module? > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Tracy Hartford <tra...@zillow.com> > wrote: > > > I am working on a large multi-module project, and I need to know how > the > > reactor works when I invoke a maven goal on the parent POM. I know > that > > Maven adds all the submodule POMs into the Reactor, which analyzes the > > dependencies between them, and determines the build order. I > understand > > that the Reactor then "effectively executes" the goal for each > > submodule. What I need to know is, when the Reactor executes the goal > > for a given submodule, does it spawn a child process to do so, or does > > it execute in the current process? If it execute in the current > process, > > is there a way to force it to spawn a new process first? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
