Hi Philip, I don't know whether this will fix the problem, but try switching the execution phase in the XML snippet from "validate" to "generate-sources". I had a look at the POM file from which I posted that first snippet, and noticed that we had made that change.
Best, Ramon Am 18.06.2010 22:50, schrieb Philip Ogren: > 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 >>> >> -- Ramon Ziai, M.A. Universität Tübingen Sonderforschungsbereich 833 'Bedeutungskonstitution' Projekt A4 'Bedeutungsvergleich im Kontext' Nauklerstr. 35 72074 Tübingen http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~rziai
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