that's the way maven works. you can use -N to avoid to run it for children creating another module to simply deploy works too (and is better because you force dependencies between deployment an module)
*Romain Manni-Bucau* *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*<http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* 2013/3/7 Lyndon Washington <[email protected]> > Hi Romain, > > Thanks for the quick response. > > Unfortunately, if I place that configuration in the root pom, it get's > ignored. The behavior I appear to be witnessing is that for each maven > submodule the tomee plugin is attempting to run an instance of tomee. > > So, the first submodule is a "common" module that just contains common > project configuration definitions, but tomee is started in that project and > since "tomee:run" was used it waits there and does not proceed to the other > projects. > > When I tried "mvn tomee:configtest" it performed the check in *all* of the > submodules. > > So, to rephrase the question, in a situation where I have submodules, is > there a way to prevent tomee trying to run in each, and just run in the > parent module using the "web apps" configuration? > > Cheers, > -Lyndon- > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > simply use in <configuration>: > > > > > > <webapps> > > > <webapp>org.superbiz:my-simple-webapp:1.0.0?name=mycontext</webapp> > > </webapps> > > > > > > i think it should be enough > > > > *Romain Manni-Bucau* > > *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* > > *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*< > > http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> > > *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* > > *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* > > > > > > > > 2013/3/7 Lyndon Washington <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a maven project whig has a parent that has a 'pom' packaging. > Its > > > submodules are made up of war, jar and pom project types. > > > > > > I have added a dependency on the parent project to the > tomee-maven-plugin > > > plugin and my hope is to be able to start an instance of tomee, from > the > > > root folder of the project and have all of the war submodules added to > > the > > > tomee instance. > > > > > > I used to use a jetty plugin, and utilized the capability to reference > > > generated war's using the jetty plugins *contenxtHandlers* parameter: > > > <plugin> > > > <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> > > > <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId> > > > <version>6.1.10</version> > > > <configuration> > > > <stopPort>9966</stopPort> > > > <stopKey>jetty-stop</stopKey> > > > <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds> > > > <contextHandlers> > > > <contextHandler > > > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> > > > > > > <war>${project.build.directory}/dependency/client.spiffyui-war</war> > > > <contextPath>/</contextPath> > > > </contextHandler> > > > <contextHandler > > > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> > > > > > > <war>${project.build.directory}/dependency/server.war</war> > > > <contextPath>/api</contextPath> > > > </contextHandler> > > > <contextHandler > > > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> > > > > > > <war>${project.build.directory}/dependency/server-apidoc.zip</war> > > > <contextPath>/doc</contextPath> > > > </contextHandler> > > > <contextHandler > > > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> > > > > > > <war>${project.build.directory}/dependency/dtpserver.war</war> > > > <contextPath>/dtp</contextPath> > > > </contextHandler> > > > <contextHandler > > > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> > > > > > > <war>${project.build.directory}/dependency/daas.war</war> > > > <contextPath>/daas</contextPath> > > > </contextHandler> > > > <contextHandler > > > implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> > > > > > > <war>${project.build.directory}/dependency/workflow-api.war</war> > > > <contextPath>/workflow-api</contextPath> > > > </contextHandler> > > > </contextHandlers> > > > </configuration> > > > </plugin> > > > > > > Is there a way to reference the same war's from the tomee plugins > > > configuration settings? I have tried to use the *webapps* parameter > but > > > that appears to rely on the GAV maven syntax, and I was not sure if I > > could > > > specify a path with that parameter or not. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > -Lyndon- > > > Lyndon Washington > > > > > >
