Use packaging=pom and then use the build helper plugin to attach the XML file.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Andy Glick <andygl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You have asked about "XML packaging". In Maven parlance packaging refers to
> the type of the artifact that the current Maven "module" will produce.
> Normally packaging is a kind of Java archive, of which jar, war, ear and
> osgi bundle are a partial enumeration. The other common value for packaging
> is "pom" which indicates that the module with pom packaging is an
> aggregating module for usually 2 or more other modules. Maven has been
> designed so that in normal usage, each module produces one and only one
> artifact. So a module that produces a war file might be a 1st module and a
> module that produces an ear including the war might be a 2nd module and
> there might be a 3rd pom module that references/manages the other 2.
>
> In Maven parlance your question reads like, how do I get maven to prepare a
> module whose result is a single XML file. Without further explanation that
> doesn't seem very sensible. Perhaps you could rephrase your question and
> explain the result that you are attempting to achieve, rather than telling
> us what Maven technique you have been unable to apply?
>
> On 8/29/11 10:15 AM, frank vestris wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like  to have a maven project where the packaging is "xml" (or
>> another file type).
>> Is it possible ?
>>
>> in my pom:
>> <packaging>xml</packaging>
>>
>> but Eclipse don't want to:
>>
>> Description     Resource        Path    Location        Type
>> Project build error: 'packaging' with value 'xml' is invalid. Aggregator
>> projects require 'pom' as packaging.    pom.xml /root-project   line 1
>>  Maven
>> Problem
>>
>> Thank you
>> Frank
>>
>>
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