Hi,
We have been using a snippet for our pom.xml file pretty much exactly
like the one below to run JCasGen on our type system descriptor before
compilation. When I switched to 2.3.0 this doesn't work anymore. For
example, when I run "mvn test", JCasGen will generate the files but then
maven just exits without an error message and without running the
tests. If I remove this block of xml from the pom, then everything
works fine.
Any thoughts about how I would go about fixing this? Or, does anyone
have another snippet of xml I could insert into my pom.xml to get the
same behavior?
Thanks,
Philip
On 7/6/2009 7:58 AM, Ramon Ziai wrote:
Hi,
just as a follow-up to this, I found a solution to this that works for
me. Here's the relevant POM snippet, in the hope that it will be useful
for others:
[...]
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<mainClass>org.apache.uima.tools.jcasgen.Jg</mainClass>
<arguments>
<argument>-jcasgeninput</argument>
<argument>desc/yourTypeSystem.xml</argument>
<argument>-jcasgenoutput</argument>
<argument>src/main/java</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
[...]
This will run JCasGen prior to the compile phase, ensuring that build
dependencies are satisfied. JCasGen is run without the merge capability,
so manual changes to the generated Java files will be lost.
Best,
Ramon
Александър Л. Димитров schrieb:
Hello,
I'm currently working on a distributed project involving UIMA. At this stage,
sometimes modifications to the UIMA descriptor files are absolutely necessary
and, unfortunately, this confuses our VCS. Whenever JCasGen is run from within
Eclipse or similar, it updates *all* generated class files, which leads the VCS
to treating them as new commits. The problem here is, when editing the
descriptors on different branches, while the merging of the descriptor files
goes well most of the time, the merging of the class files fails most of the
time. This leaves the merger with several dozen conflicts.
The current policy is to then just delete those files and run JCasGen on the
merged branch. Of course, the actual problem here is, that one shouldn't really
track those files in the first place.
But the matter is slightly more delicate. After checking out the project from
version control, the project should be readily compilable, without further
setup. That's why we're using Maven to fetch all dependencies and automate the
build process. Without having these files in source control, they have to be
generated first.
So the real question is: is there any way to run a JCasGen from within the Maven
build? Probably a plugin? Of course, one could just spawn a process to call
org.apache.uima.tools.jcasgen.Jg, but I wanted to ask if such a thing already
existed.
Thanks,
Aleks
