Hi, I've wondered about this problem for a while now, and I cannot figure out a way to solve this.
To generate code in my user project, the user project has to declare a dependency to the "generator" jar, which transitively brings in dependencies like the "metamodel" and "dsl" jars and EMF, oAW, HybridLabs, Jalopy, Antlr, etc. There are a whole bunch of jars that come in via transitive dependencies. The problem is that these jars are always on the classpath. So when I create wars or other projects depend on my project, these jars always go with them. Yes, there are usually ways to exclude these jars in each of those scenarios, but I have to hunt down every usage and put the fix there. It would be nice if there was a way for these jars to be available only when we generate code. Because after that happens, they are not used anymore. I tried changing the scope of the dependencies or making them optional, but then I get ClassNotFoundExceptions when I try to generate. So it seems that most of the jars are required for generation. It would be too much work (and error-prone) to figure out exactly which ones are really needed at runtime. Plus it doesn't really solve the problem. I also tried defining the dependency to the "generator" jar in the "fornax-oaw-m2-plugin" plugin "dependency" section instead of directly in my user project. I figured that this seems logical. The "generator" is needed only by the plugin when it runs. But alas, that does not work either. There are no errors, but nothing generates. I get: [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : openArchitectureWare v4.3.1 [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : (c) 2005-2008 openarchitectureware.org and contributors [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : running workflow: workflow.oaw [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : [org.fornax.toolsupport.maven2.MojoWorkflowRunner] : workflow completed in 0ms! Can someone tell me why this approach doesn't work and how I might get it to work? If this approach won't work, how can I get the "generator" and its transitive dependencies off my user project's classpath? Thanks! --Polly -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-Sculptor--Generator-dependency-tp26309409s17564p26309409.html Sent from the Fornax-Platform mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fornax-developer mailing list Fornax-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fornax-developer
