No suggestions to help Barrie ?

Arnaud

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Barrie Treloar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-37
> There doesn't seem to be anything on the mailing lists to help with
> this problem.
>
> There is one person on the mailing list wanting to create a new custom
> lifecycle (which is what I think is needed) and not configuring an
> overlay of an existing lifecycle.
>
> The discussion is around not using the default build lifecycle and to
> create a new lifecycle with the following phases:
>            <phases>
>              <phase>generate-sources</phase>
>              <phase>generate-resources</phase>
>              <phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
>              <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
>            </phases>
>
> So that compilation, etc is not needed in order to create the eclipse
> project files.
>
> My investigation has lead me to the following conclusions:
>
> META-INF/maven/lifecycle.xml
>  Is used to hook the current Mojo into an existing lifecycle (the one
> bound to the packaging).
>  The <id> in the lifecycle.xml is only used for lookup and the phases
> are overlaid on the existing lifecycle.
>  It is not used to define your own lifecycle (with custom phases - or
> dropping existing phases)
>
> META-INF/plexus/components.xml
>  When the packaging is "eclipse-plugin" (for creating eclipse pde
> project files) then this defines a new
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMapping and
> org.apache.maven.artifact.handler.ArtifactHandler. Giving it a
> completely new and independent lifecycle.
>
>  However, the eclipse plugin needs its own lifecycle regardless of
> the packaging type of the pom. I can use
>  @execute phase="generate-resources" lifecycle="eclipse-plugin"
>  But this only works if the plugin has been configured with
>        <extensions>true</extensions>
>  Which needs the plugin to be defined with this option in the pom.xml
>  I'd like to see extensions turned on by default for any command line
> invoked plugin.
>
>  The http://maven.apache.org/developers/mojo-api-specification.html
> indicates that it should be running the alternative lifecycle, but I
> am finding that it runs the default lifecycle.  e.g. if I change the
> phase to "verify" (which does not exist in my lifecycle above) then I
> can see in the build-output logs that it is running the default
> lifecycle, with whatever plugins are attached to those phases for that
> packaging.
>
>  i.e for packaging "eclipse-plugin" it is using the lifecycle defined
> in components.xml and only running those four phases.  But for other
> packaging it is using the lifecycle for that packaging and whatever
> additional bindings that have been defined in lifecycle.xml.
>
>  Also trying to use a different built-in lifecycle like "site" fails
> with "Lifecycle 'site' not found in plugin", so no go hacking through
> that route.
>
> maven-lifecycle/src/main/mdo/maven-lifecycle.mdo
> (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk/maven-lifecycle)
>  This defines the lifecyles in maven.  There doesn't appear to be any
> way to add to this list at runtime via a plugin.
>  I've tried adding a new org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutor
> similar to
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
> in the plugin's META-INF/plexus/components.xml file in the hope that
> this one will be picked up by Maven instead of the one in maven-core
> but that was just wishful thinking (my lack of Plexus knowledge is
> showing).
>
> Anyone have suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Barrie
>
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