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djechlin
djechlin

Reputation: 60748

maven - automatically build local dependencies

Currently my deploy workflow involves manually (i.e. in a script) cd-ing into each maven project directory and running mvn install. The problem is for local resources, i.e. other in-house code that I've written and am actively developing/maintaining, I don't know how to tell maven to build those resources itself when they are missing. Ideally each time I need to re-package the top level application it will rebuild any libraries it depends on that have at least one file modified.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 650

Answers (3)

Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor

Reputation: 77941

Consider setting up Jenkins to automatically build your code. Jenkins has a useful feature that will rebuild projects that depend on newly built artifacts. Builds can be automatically triggered by simply committing your code.

If you're using several development machines (or working in a team) combine Jenkins with Nexus (Other options:Artifactory, Archiva) to provide a common store for shared artifacts. These tools are were designed to support Maven builds.

Upvotes: 0

Frank Pavageau
Frank Pavageau

Reputation: 11705

If your (multi-module) project uses other in-house resources, what you actually need might not be to rebuild all those resources all the time, but to use a local maven repository. It can be a simple repository where resources are deployed using ssh or an HTTP transport (see the deploy plugin), or a real artifact manager such as Archiva, Artifactory or Nexus.

A repository manager does more than just hold your deployed artifacts, it can also clean the obsolete snapshots once the corresponding release has been made, and serve as a local cache for other repositories, including central.

Upvotes: 3

muruga
muruga

Reputation: 1073

Have a parent POM which contains all your modules. When you build the parent, all the modules that are part of parent POM file will be build as well.

You can inherit many things from the parent as long as you have the parent in your child.

Upvotes: 1

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