Validating archive created by assembly plugin

Hi, From time to time developers change assembly descriptors and then what I think is being packaged may not actually be what I expect to be packaged. Anyone out there taking steps to verify the contents of an archive and if so how are you going about such? I was thinking of writing a number

Re: another eclipse multi module vs. flat question

Whatever strategy you opt for should be one that the team is comfortable with and is willing to support. I'm a fan of the flat approach. I try to keep modules as simple as possible this way builds fail fast with immediate feedback to the team. I use Maven in our environment to build out server,

resolver-status.properties read/write warnings

When running any mvn command (tried 3.0.3 and 3.0.4) on OSX Lion I see numerous lines of output similar to below. I added a mac box to my build farm. The Maven repo is hosted on a net app box that is visible to all my Redhat, Windows and now OSX build nodes via an NFS mount. The build doesn't

Re: resolver-status.properties read/write warnings

I wasn't aware that a shared local repo wasn't supported. I just switched over all nodes to a local repo throughout the build farm and the warnings did indeed disappear. Version of Java used on this particular OSX node is java version 1.6.0_31 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build

RE: Maven repostiry for same projects,but different streams

The use of classifiers may help out in this case. The major Maven packaging plugins like jar, ear, and war allow the use of a classifier to be configured. For each of your streams if you pass in a property at build time -Dstream=value then you could set the classifier to this property and all

Generating a jar multiple times using classifiers

Hi, How do people approach the need to generate a jar multiple times using classifiers. My specific requirement is that I have a module which needs to be built against Axis2 1.3 and Axis2 1.4 and have 2 jars in the repo with distinct classifiers. I can get this to work using profiles but this

RE: build with ant, install with maven

We use the build-helper-maven-plugin to do exactly this. We wrapper the Ant project with basic Maven and then configure the plugin to do the rest. Works a treat -- Robert -Original Message- From: Wayne Fay [mailto:wayne...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:19 AM To: Maven

RE: How to attach a text file to a module's distribution?

In the past i've made use of the Build Helper plug-in to attach additional artifacts http://mojo.codehaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin -Original Message- From: David C. Hicks [mailto:dhi...@i-hicks.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:27 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: How to

Version ranges

Hi, Do version ranges work across Maven plugins or are they limited to Maven core functionality? As an example I defined a dependency with a range of version [4.4.2.01,)/version and all was well. But when I tried to use the same notation with the maven-dependency-plugin 2.0 it results in a

RE: maven-surefire-plugin configuration for unit/integration tests

It is possible to just run unit tests or integration tests from a module but it gets messy and over complicated. For example I have projects that separate tests by placing all unit tests in a directory called unit and all integration tests in a directory called it. With such a separation it

RE: Property that defines the generated artifact name

on the Maven site -- Robert -Original Message- From: Olivier Dehon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:38 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Property that defines the generated artifact name On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 22:41 -0800, Bracewell, Robert wrote

scm plugin 1.1 problems

Hi, When I run mvn scm:checkout I keep hitting the issue below: [INFO] Cannot run status command : Embedded error: Can't login. Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. [INFO] I am using Perforce and I have tried

Maven and various test strategies

Looking for insight's into how other users are managing unit and integration tests in current 2.0.x. At the moment the projects I have store unit tests under **/unit/** and integration tests under **/it/** I have compiler and surefire plugin configurations to exclude it tests and then have a

RE: Profile inheritence

I have a super pom which several of my product lines use as a parent. So for functionality I want across several product lines I add such to the super pom. If a product needs to diverge then I override at the product level pom. Basically all my components that make up a build specify their

RE: How do I found out when the next version of the maven-dependency-plugin is due to be released?

version of the maven-dependency-plugin is due to be released? I was working on some issues earlier this week at the hackathon to prepare for a release. I'll see if this one can get included. -Original Message- From: Bracewell, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November

How do I found out when the next version of the maven-dependency-plugin is due to be released?

Hi, I am looking to find out if it's possible to know when such is due and what the planned list of Jira fixes would be? Thanks, Robert

RE: How do I found out when the next version of the maven-dependency-plugin is due to be released?

-- Robert -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:52 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: How do I found out when the next version of the maven-dependency-plugin is due to be released? On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Bracewell, Robert

Is it possible to fail a build if a dependency scope defined at parent is overridden at module level?

Hi, Is it possible to fail a build or generate a report if the scope defined for dependencies at a parent pom level are overridden at a module level? Would the enforcer plugin allow me to write a custom rule to implement such or could this be achieved via a different route? -- Robert

RE: Sonar

We use both Sonar and the site plug-in. Sonar is run to provide metrics which the dev team find handy. We have Sonar invoked via Hudson for every development task submitted to relevant modules in our SCM system. This way developers can quickly see if metrics go up or down. We use the site to

RE: Assemblies, filtering, and multiproject builds - a question.

I have never got filtering working with filesets The Maven documentation states filtering only works on files So switching to files solved my issues -- Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Patti Sent: 20 June 2008 22:46 To:

Generating PMD/CPD metrics for test code

Hi, I am unable to generate PMD/CPD metrics for a test suite as part of a multi-module build. The parent pom pulls version 2.3 of the PMD plugin and sets the includeTests setting to true. The PMD and CPD reports are generated but do not include the test metrics. However if I generate a site from

RE: Release plugin questions

- From: Michael Delaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2008 17:01 To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Release plugin questions Sorry, I am still getting the same error when I add that to the pom.xml file. -Original Message- From: Bracewell, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Release plugin questions

Try specifying the developerConnection, e.g., !-- P4 Location -- scm connectionscm:perforce:localhost:1666://depot/sandboxes/mdelaney/utils/connection developerConnectionscm:perforce:localhost:1666://depot/sandboxes/mdelaney/utils/developerConnection /scm -Original

RE: How to better manage cascading releases

In our organization it depends on the project but I have projects that release twice a week internally. Other groups or projects that are reliant on such artifacts can then decide as and when they want to depend on the new artifacts that were deployed. -Original Message- From: Geoffrey

Maven and organization of source tree in SCM toolset

Hi, I am trying to get an understanding of how users are using the Maven toolset with SCM tools such as Perforce to handle branching strategies. Does anyone know of any such white papers or further reading or be willing to share current practices? Do users tend to use a dense hierarchical

RE: Maven and organization of source tree in SCM toolset

. One day i'll get around to putting something up on the net about how i've structured my projects and why. On Thu, 29 May 2008 21:42:14 Bracewell, Robert wrote: Hi, I am trying to get an understanding of how users are using the Maven toolset with SCM tools such as Perforce to handle branching

RE: Getting a dynamic property

Use an environmental property For example some other system could set the env var called P4_CL and then you could reference it using ${env.P4_CL} -Original Message- From: Richard Chamberlain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 May 2008 11:10 To: Maven Users List Subject: Getting a dynamic

RE: assembly filtering not working in multi-module set up

Yes I have had the same issue in multi-module projects using filesets. I had to change the fileset to be files and it worked. The Maven assembly plugin documentation page states Filtering is only enabled inside files... -Original Message- From: Richard Chamberlain [mailto:[EMAIL

Perforce and release:branch goal

Hi all, Investigating the use of the release:branch goal but running into issues. The error is listed below. I have to say that I have no issue using the release:prepare goal so everything seems to be in place with the SCM section of the pom. Does anyone use the release:branch goal in

RE: Perforce and release:branch goal

. -Original Message- From: Bracewell, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 May 2008 12:42 To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Perforce and release:branch goal Hi all, Investigating the use of the release:branch goal but running into issues. The error is listed below. I have to say that I

RE: perforce numbered unique snapshots

Hi, Can you expand a little? What do you mean by a perforce numbered artefact? Would you not have the potential for several P4 CLs that affect any one artefact? What we do is embed a unique id as a java class which can then be queried via a UI. We also embed this unique id as part of the

RE: perforce numbered unique snapshots

) and it would be good to name my artefact myapp-1.3-SNAPSHOT-12345.jar where 12345 is the perforce changelist number when the build occurred. When the build failed I can sync my code to 12345 and be able to debug it instantly. Richard -Original Message- From: Bracewell, Robert [mailto

Referencing a dependency via a property

Hi, I would like to be able to refer to a dependency via a property. As an example consider the site phase which runs numerous reporting plugins and such a plugin requires a license. I have the license sitting in the repository as an artefact and I define the artefact as a dependency in the

Filtering anomaly

Hi, Noticed an oddity with filtering in that it is replacing the wrong properties under certain conditions. The key thing to note in below mockup is the url property in pom.xml Contents of pom.xml: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? project xmlns=http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0;