Greetings.
I have a very specific need in a java project in Eclipse: The jars which
the project depends on must be copied to an external folder.
The maven-dependency-plugin and its copy-dependencies goal come to mind
immediately.
As a test, I wrote the following pom.xml:
-----
<project ...>
...
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${my.external.location}/alterloc</outputDirectory>
<excludeArtifactIds>servlet-api</excludeArtifactIds>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
-----
However, the above pom shows some bogus behavior, depending on the user
action:
1) Right-clicking the project and selecting "Maven >
Update Project Configuration": The folder "alterloc" is created in
"my.external.location", and the jars, but servlet-api, are copied to it
- Just as expected.
2) Compiling the project: The folder "dependency" is
created in "project.build.directory", and the jars, including
servlet-api, are copied to it - Not expected, once the configurations
seems to be ignored
I already tried to change the phase to "compile", to "process-classes",
but in that case it's even worst: The dependencies wasn't copied at all.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
Luciano Mantuaneli <http://www.linkedin.com/in/lucianomantuaneli>
TI Melhorias - Suporte a Canais
CPM Braxis
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