Ooh, I hope that works! Though I'll be kicking myself if that's all it was.
;) I didn't use "provided" because I thought that means the jars won't be
automatically downloaded from the Maven repo if the user doesn't have them.
Is that not the case?
Thanks,
Polly
Patrik Nordwall wrote:
>
> Hi Polly,
> Have you tried scope provided?
>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.fornax.cartridges</groupId>
>
> <artifactId>fornax-cartridges-sculptor-generator</artifactId>
> <version>${sculptor.version}</version>
> <scope>provided</scope>
> </dependency>
>
> That is how the archetypes generate the pom files and that is how I use it
> without any further excludes, and it is not placed in war/ear.
>
> /Patrik
>
>
>
> polly.c.chang wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
>
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