Hi,
I am currently working on converting Apache Flex from Ant to Maven. I have managed to convert all of the Ant stuff in our newest SDK. I even built a new maven plugin for doing the Flex compilation. All parts seem to be working great. The build consists of: - A compiler - Some Framework libs that are build using the compiler The maven plugin is not part of the build. The maven plugin has a plugin-dependency to the compiler artifact. It is used in the framework modules to build the flex artifacts. Now if I just build the compiler or I just build the framework, all works fine. But if I build compiler and framework in the same build, the flex maven plugin complains about not being able to find the classes of the compiler. The dump of the classpath lists the compiler.jar, but it doesn't seem to be able to load any classes from it. If I take the context classloader inside the plugin and create a new instance with the exact same URLs, I am able to manually load the class. I assume that this is due to the fact that the compiler jar is replaced during the build after getting a handle to the jar file and before using it. But that is just a well educated guess. Is there anything I could do to make this build work? I am also having builds randomly fail because artifacts that are used b plugins are replaced during the build, but I couldn't quite pin the problem down to a cause. Probably when I asked this question on the user list, this was too specific for that list, as I didn't get a single response. Hopefully on this list it will be different :-) I would really appreciate a little Help here ... It's definitely worth at least a beer in Vancouver ;-) Chris
