Hello Maven users, I am really newbie in Maven, so I am not pretty sure if my way of thinking is right. If it's not, do not hesitate to criticize it.
I am developing medium-size project, which contains both Java SE and Android sub-projects. After many troubles with Ant, I've decided to give Maven's a try. To make it simple, let's say that I have three projects: - Android application - Swing application - Main application (also uses Swing, but this is not important now) Those three applications are building pretty well with maven. I am typing "mvn package" and - as expected - I get one *.apk file and two *.jar files. Thanks to maven-shade-plugin, JAR files contains all required dependencies. They are, of course, executable jars. Goal of Main application is to "generate" Swing and Android applications for user's request. Those applications are prebuilt, so Main program needs only to slightly modify it before putting onto user's disk. However, I would like to deliver only one file - Main.jar. Two other files - Android.apk and Swing.jar should be put as entire files inside of Main.jar (they should stay there as full files, without unpacking or anything). This way, when user decided to generate e.g. Swing application, Main application gets whole file Swing.jar from itself, modifies it a little and put somewhere to user's file system. That same is possible in case of generating Android program. But it requires shipping Android.apk and Swing.jar inside of Main.jar. Is it possible to be done using Maven? I suppose that Swing.jar and Android.apk should be provided as resources during build of Main.jar, but I don't know how to instruct Maven to do it this way. I have tried to set <phase>compile</phase> in maven-jar-plugin configuration in Swing.jar. I suppose it is wrong solution - in compile phase, Main application should already have all required resources. Is there any way to instruct Maven to "package" my Android and Swing projects during "prepare-resources" of Main project? Of course, those two are dependencies, so Main project should be informed, that resources were changed in case of modifications in those two. I am using Maven 3.0.3 and m2e 1.0.200. Thank you in advance for any help/advise/criticism :). Best Regards, Mariusz Pluciński --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
