Yes, I believe that is correct - the Maven plugin does not support "merging" with already generated customized JCasGen cover classes.
If that was a requirement, I suspect (with some work, and dependencies such as you need to have an Eclipse installation...) it could be added. -Marshall On 11/22/2016 3:13 AM, Peter Klügl wrote: > Hi, > > > I think there is a problem with customized JCasGen cover classes. The > maven plugin does not support it but just generates new classes. > > > Best, > > > Peter > > > Am 21.11.2016 um 22:27 schrieb Marshall Schor: >> On 11/19/2016 1:10 PM, Pablo Duboue wrote: >>> Can we support generated classes being handled by maven while the user >>> provides custom subclasses? >> We currently have a maven plugin that runs JCasGen, so, yes, I think this is >> possible, even now. >> -Marshall >>> At least we should support realizing there are custom files in src and >>> modify them there rather than generated-sources. >>> >>> Rationale: >>> >>> JCasGen output is big and computer generated. Without customization, >>> what I have seen is to exclude those files from src/ and use the maven >>> plugin to generate them. The new framework makes customization much >>> more appealing, can we keep as much of the automatic generation >>> process within maven? >>> >>> This thread can be a good place for maven discussion in general, too. >>> >
