I think this is something the maven team dealt with recently. You
might want to ask them what solution they came up with.
BTW I don't think resource will work, since maven simply copies the
resources into the classes directory.
-dain
On Jul 29, 2005, at 8:50 AM, David Jencks wrote:
This might work, although it will cause significant additional
complications for use with idea and probably other tools. From my
point of view this is sort of an eclipse limitation in that it
appears to be insisting that there can only be one "compiler"
producing binary output, and that compiler is the eclipse java
compiler. I would think a more flexible approach would be to allow
adding multiple "compilers" to the eclipse project.
I probably won't have time to look into this for a while. If you
want to pursue it, you need to make sure that:
1. the "resources" directory you add is in target, not src
2. the maven xmlbeans plugin adds the resource directory to the
maven internal structures whether or not it runs xmlbeans to
generate code. I think there might be some code for including the
source schemas that might be similar to what you need.
3. modify the idea plugin to find the generated classes. I don't
know if this is necessary and I don't know if it will confuse idea.
Will doing this provide a solution to the eclipse classpath problem
as well? IIUC to get eclipse to recognize the generated classes
you need to put the final output jar on the eclipse classpath. I
hope that there is one solution that will solve both problems.
thanks
david jencks
On Jul 29, 2005, at 7:22 AM, Sachin Patel wrote:
What are peoples thoughts on the following change?...
Maven as far as I know doesn't support multiple output folders, it
only contains "/target/classes" so the binary output from
xmlbeans2 is thrown into there, causing problems with Eclipse
since these files are subject to being deleted.
However maven does have a concept of "resources".
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
In this example, every file in src/main/resources is copied as is
to the target/classes directory, preserving any subdirectory
structure.
Can xmlbeans2 can generate for each project into its own
<directory> outside of "target/classes"? This generated output
will be copied into "target/classes" preserving the Maven build
and IntelliJ support. If so we can modify the maven-eclipse
plugin to set this folder as a "classes" folder so its contents be
preserved supporting Eclipse integration.
Is this change feasible and doable?
Thanks.
Sachin.
