It looks like you are going down the road towards a big fight with Maven.
Maven is a determined adversary and will eventually win.
Do things the Maven way.
Structure you projects properly, let Maven determine what it needs to do
next.
We found that in a large (70+ module) project, Maven worked well.
If you have your project well structured and you build and test and
release in a sensible fashion, Maven will not require any custom
plug-ins or fancy commands or external tools.
As is often said "Maven is not Ant".
If you are determined to build tools, then build plug-ins not external
tools but first get your Maven stuff working well.
Make sure that you have a repo installed before you start building
tools. Maven without a repo is not a good idea in a large project.
Just some free advice.
Ron
On 31/08/2011 11:54 AM, Matta, Sunil wrote:
Coming from a very c++ centric world with makefiles, trying to figure
out a bunch of issues for a very large project, i.e. many
modules/projects.
a mvn clean command at the top level project gives me a list of projects
in sequence that mvn will compile, and not in the order they are listed
in the pom file.
Which is good, however,
* Which plugin produces the list of projects that need to be
compiled ? Is this mvn proper or the reactor plugin ?
* I need to modify the output of this command get the artifact id
instead of / in addition to the project's descriptive name.
* I am currently using "-Dmake.printOnly -DskipTests clean" to
just get this list. Any other way to get this list ?
I need the above to aid in the tools I am building to help make
deploying a multi/many module project easier.
The problem I am having is with dependencies and hardening of pom files,
etc. and trying to reduce the amount of time spent on a release by
automating as much of the process as possible.
If I cannot get the artifactId instead of the project name in this
output, then I have to keep my own mapping, which can be error prone and
go out of date, etc.
Would rather generate this via maven.
Thanks in advance,
Sunil Matta
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