RE: [m2] any tutorial on how to get Maven to compile and deploy in Tomcat/eclipse?

2008-05-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
I'm not sure I can completely answer your question (relatively new user myself), but I can tell you what we did here (we also develop in Eclipse and deploy via Tomcat). I have this plugin [1] to launch Tomcat via Eclipse and debug the processes that are running in it. I haven't gotten Maven to

RE: keep out META-INF/context.xml

2008-04-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
I'm not 100% sure (still new at Maven myself) but I believe that copying files to webapp/* takes place in a different phase. So what I think is happening is that you've excluded the context.xml file from your main resources phase, but it gets included in the WAR packaging secondary resource phase,

Running some tests but not others according to a -D property?

2008-04-22 Thread Allen, Daniel
Does anyone know if it's possible to have Surefire run some tests but not others, deciding based on a setting from the command line? My situation is that some tests are working with Tibco Rendezvous, and the daemon isn't always available. It would be nice to include -Dskip.rv.tests=true on the

Surefire test JUnit's TestCase.fail() method

2008-04-17 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I'm using Maven to automatically run my suite of unit tests, which are made with JUnit 4.4, and I'm having some trouble with it. It runs the tests successfully, but when one fails, it doesn't give me the message that I used in the test case. That is, JUnit's TestCase class has the method

RE: Maven Surefire Plugin Quick Question

2008-04-15 Thread Allen, Daniel
To my knowledge, if you run the tests and there are failures you can't build, although you can get something similar by including -Dmaven.test.skip=true on the command line. That skips the tests entirely. -Original Message- From: Tonté Pouncil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Downloading a file from the network as part of gathering resources?

2008-04-15 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi all. I'm builing my project with Maven 2, and am wondering if there's a plug-in that can download a file from the web as a resource. Basically, my project is a web front end for someone else's project, and we'll be sharing an XSD file that describes the format of our communications. However,

Accessing test.properties from within a test case class?

2008-04-08 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I feel like this must be a really obvious question, but I haven't found an example yet. When I started my project from an archetype (struts 2, specifically) my /test/resources folder got a file called test.properties. It seems pretty clear that this is where properties that my test cases

RE: Accessing test.properties from within a test case class?

2008-04-08 Thread Allen, Daniel
? It will be on the classpath, so load that property file as a resource from the cp. -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:45 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Accessing test.properties from within a test case class? Hi, all. I feel

[m2] manually deploying?

2008-03-26 Thread Allen, Daniel
Ok, so I know it's sort of an asinine thing to do. However, currently mvn deploy is returning an HTTP 405 error from our repository, and I don't really have control over our company repository (new employee doesn't get permissions for a while), so I can only do a manual copy to the appropriate

RE: [m2] manually deploying?

2008-03-26 Thread Allen, Daniel
Something is set up wrong with the repository so that it's basically read-only at present, and any attempt to use deploy gives an HTTP 405 error. The people who maintain it are on a different continent, and also pretty busy, so it can be hard to get hold of them, and when I do I'm often told to

RE: [m2] manually deploying?

2008-03-26 Thread Allen, Daniel
What do you mean? Change it how? -Original Message- From: Brian E. Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:49 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: [m2] manually deploying? If you have file or scp access to the repo, why not just change the distMgt url in the

RE: [m2] manually deploying?

2008-03-26 Thread Allen, Daniel
deploying? Change your pom to use file:/// or scp:/// -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:27 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: [m2] manually deploying? What do you mean? Change it how? -Original Message- From: Brian

RE: [m2] Javadoc packaged with deployed JAR

2008-03-17 Thread Allen, Daniel
team?) But anyway, I would still really like to package the Javadoc into the same JAR as the classes, if that's possible. ~DVA -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 4:10 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: [m2] Javadoc packaged with deployed JAR Hi, all. I've

[m2] Javadoc packaged with deployed JAR

2008-03-14 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I've created a small package of utilities that I'm deploying to the company's local repository for reuse. However, a problem with that reuse is that when we do our programming in Eclipse, the mouse-over javadoc display doesn't work, so it's hard to tell what functionality I'm actually

Knowing what artifact I need?

2008-03-07 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi all. I have a general sort of question about writing POMs. When figuring out what dependencies I need, I frequently come up against the fact that the web at large refers to package names when talking about class usage, whereas Maven refers to the name of the jar file that it comes in. So

RE: Knowing what artifact I need?

2008-03-07 Thread Allen, Daniel
Olivier: I'm don't think those are quite what I'm talking about: I put org.springframework.ejb into the search fields, and didn't get any results (what I'm hoping this would return would be spring-remote.jar, which is where that package is). Am I using it wrong? Brian: Do you have any idea

RE: sharing properties between modules

2008-03-07 Thread Allen, Daniel
If you're talking about just properties and not any code or classes, then perhaps you could just use variables and filtering in the configuration files, and then have a profile that's used in both builds? I would suggest perhaps a sort of token parent project whose POM doesn't really contain

RE: sharing properties between modules

2008-03-07 Thread Allen, Daniel
I don't actually know if dependency POMs look at their profiles' activeByDefault elements or not. I guess not, from what you're describing. Have you tried invoking the profile explicitly when you run Maven? (e.g. mvn -P profileName deploy) The dependency POM's profiles may still be available, even

Started getting exception when packaging war

2008-02-27 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. I'm using the war:exploded goal, it was working before, and then I switched projects for a couple weeks, came back, and found that the same POM results in this exception now. Does anyone know if there was a non-backwards compatible update to the WAR plugin or to Maven itself that might

RE: Started getting exception when packaging war

2008-02-27 Thread Allen, Daniel
Still getting the same result, but adding the -U didn't update the WAR plugin (the only thing in the output that was listed as downloaded was a new version of the Surefire plugin). I know using --version gives the Maven version, but how can I check what version of a particular plugin I'm using?

RE: Started getting exception when packaging war

2008-02-27 Thread Allen, Daniel
It's building again--thanks, Olivier! I'll add a version lock to the plugin delcaration too; that's a good idea. ~Dan Allen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olivier Lamy Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:43 PM To: Maven Users List

RE: Why is there two configuration files for Maven, settings.xml and pom.xml

2008-02-25 Thread Allen, Daniel
The idea is that some settings are not specific to a project (settings.xml is just a file on your computer, not part of the build). For example, one thing I have in settings.xml is settings for my local web proxy. That doesn't make any sense to attach to your project, since it's probably not

RE: Local Maven repository. Newbie question...

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
creating a settings.xml file. I think it's a chicken or egg thing. In writing the book they talk about things in chapter 1 than get covered for first time in chapter 2... %-| Cheers for reply, Jeremy Allen, Daniel wrote: Not saying for sure that this is what's going on, but in my experience

RE: Local Maven repository. Newbie question...

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Not saying for sure that this is what's going on, but in my experience it seems like XP only makes that complaint if *you* try to name a folder that, while automated processes can get away with it. That is, the check is only part of the UI, not an actual file system rule. I'm developing on XP, and

Includes override excludes? [war plugin]

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi. I've been working with Maven and Struts2 to put together a web application, and I noticed something odd. With the POM below, I end up with two copes of tiles-def.xml and struts.xml. One is in WEB-INF/classes where it needs to be, but the other is at the level above, in WEB-INF. Have I done

RE: Includes override excludes? [war plugin]

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
Apologies for the mangled XML formatting... MS Outlook = :( -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:31 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Includes override excludes? [war plugin] Hi. I've been working with Maven and Struts2 to put together a web

RE: Multi-Modules and classifier dependencies

2008-02-12 Thread Allen, Daniel
No idea from just what you've provided here. Perhaps you could upload your POMs to the web and so we could take a look? -Original Message- From: Saloucious [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:02 AM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: Multi-Modules and

RE: Renaming resulting directory from war:exploded

2008-02-06 Thread Allen, Daniel
and we can all benefit. Wayne On 2/5/08, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been using the war plugin to package up a web app. However, to save time, it would be great if the result had a consistent name so that we could copy it directly into the Tomcat/webapps directory and have

RE: Renaming resulting directory from war:exploded

2008-02-06 Thread Allen, Daniel
be that an example should be created for future people looking for this specific use case, to make it more obvious: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/war-mojo.html Wayne On 2/6/08, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer my own question (for the archives and those searching them

RE: [m2] Listing of online repositories?

2008-02-05 Thread Allen, Daniel
control all request that maven will make. For the default repos, have a look at conf/settings.xml in your maven install directory. These are the master settings. You do know about mavenproxy, archiva and the like? Greetings, Stefan Allen, Daniel wrote: Hi, all. The systems security people

Renaming resulting directory from war:exploded

2008-02-05 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi all, I've been using the war plugin to package up a web app. However, to save time, it would be great if the result had a consistent name so that we could copy it directly into the Tomcat/webapps directory and have it startup with the proper context path. In the call to the war plugin, I

RE: [m2] Filtering web.xml?

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
On 2/1/08, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a web application (packaging WAR), and I need to run the web.xml file through a filter to set certain configutation values. I tried adding it to a resource tag, but that causes Maven to make a copy of it and put it in WEB-INF/classes

RE: [m2] Filtering web.xml?

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
Nevermind about the overlays; I found a docs page on that. -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:08 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: [m2] Filtering web.xml? Wayne: I thought having packagingwar/packaging in your pom.xml was a shortcut to calling

RE: [m2] Filtering web.xml?

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
to seriously contribute to the documents, but I can manage small chores like cross-referencing. ;) Anyway, thanks for the link, Wayne. ~Dan Allen -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:58 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: [m2] Filtering web.xml

RE: build profiles

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
When I was doing profiles for the first time, I noticed that anything I put in profiles.xml was active by default, and that my dev profile overrode my live release profile. This may be your problem. Try adding: activation activeByDefaultfalse/activeByDefault /activation to the dev profile that

RE: build profiles

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
profiles Currently i am not using any profile(tag) for sub modules, I am just mentioning directory tag inside build tag. Do i need to have separate profile to do that? regards, Amit On Feb 4, 2008 1:03 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was doing profiles for the first time, I

RE: .m2/settings.xml

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
There's also a sample settings.xml file in the directory that Maven installs to, under the /conf subdirectory. It contains pretty much everything you might need to put into your settings, in commented-out generic form. ~Dan Allen -Original Message- From: amit kumar [mailto:[EMAIL

[m2] Listing of online repositories?

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. The systems security people are being a bit of a pain in the ass about Maven, as it calls out to the internet at large. So, I was wondering where in the installation I can find a full listing of the repository mirrors that Maven knows about and checks by default. Also, if there is a way

RE: build profiles

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
like mvn -P int Amit On Feb 4, 2008 1:47 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... you're saying that your profile (profile1, according to your example command-line call below) is defined in/for the parent POM? I think I'm not 100% understanding your setup. Could you give me a more

RE: build profiles

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
profile idint/id build directoryC:\Diff/directory /build /profile /profiles something like mvn -P int Amit On Feb 4, 2008 1:47 PM, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... you're saying that your profile (profile1, according to your example command-line

RE: [m2.0.7] Null pointer exception with war:exploded

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
/includes /resource /webResources -- Olivier 2008/2/4, Allen, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, all. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with finding and configuring the war plugin. I believe that I have the settings correct to do what I need now. However, when I try and run mvn -P dev clean package

[m2.0.7] Null pointer exception with war:exploded

2008-02-04 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi, all. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with finding and configuring the war plugin. I believe that I have the settings correct to do what I need now. However, when I try and run mvn -P dev clean package, I get a null pointer exception. The War plugin source is available only by

Repository Blacklist

2008-02-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
Hi. I'm using Maven2, and without telling me, the company I'm at recently put up a proxy between the office and the web. So, when I tried to use Maven with a new plugin, it attempted to get that from the central repository, failed because I hadn't set up the proxy settings, and then blacklisted

RE: Repository Blacklist

2008-02-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
My .m2 directory is actually totally empty except for the settings.xml file (which I just now made, and which contains nothing except the aforementioned proxy info), so maybe the blacklist isn't kept between runs. Anyway, I had been trying mvn dependency:resolve, which was crashing out. I'm

[m2] Filtering web.xml?

2008-02-01 Thread Allen, Daniel
I'm building a web application (packaging WAR), and I need to run the web.xml file through a filter to set certain configutation values. I tried adding it to a resource tag, but that causes Maven to make a copy of it and put it in WEB-INF/classes subdirectory with all of the rest of the resources.

RE: Maven java2wsdl...

2008-01-28 Thread Allen, Daniel
It might be because you're using Maven 1. I get the impression that most of the people on the User List have moved on to Maven 2. There is some documentation around on WSDL and Axis in Maven 2. I believe the example system in Better Builds With Maven (free PDF book) uses those, so if you wanted to

RE: Maven java2wsdl...

2008-01-28 Thread Allen, Daniel
(By the way, when I say it might be because, I mean maybe no one's responding because, not that using Maven 1 might be your problem) -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:22 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Maven java2wsdl... It might be because

Questions: Automatically-set tokens in Maven 2 loading properties from files

2008-01-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
I'm new to Maven, and have a couple questions that I've not been able to answer from the documentation on the site so far, so I thought I'd put them out here. -What I'm trying to do Basically, I have the Maven 1 maven.xml file copied below (which, as you can see, actually does a lot of its work

RE: Getting correct file based on a profile

2008-01-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
Is there any possibility you could rename the development version to something like beanRefFactory-dev.xml and put it in the same place as the production version? If so, then you could refer to one or the other by a token, and define it in properties in the profiles. Or you could put the path into

RE: Questions: Automatically-set tokens in Maven 2 loading properties from files

2008-01-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
tokens in Maven 2 loading properties from files Hi Dan, This is a pretty good list of the 'tokens' or properties that are available in Maven2: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/MavenPropertiesGuide Matt -Original Message- From: Allen, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24

RE: Error ear

2008-01-24 Thread Allen, Daniel
Do you have the required files on hand? You could set up your own local repository. -Original Message- From: Arthur Rodrigues Stilben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:00 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Error ear Hi, I have a problem in my ear project. I