Thanks Robert. I opened some of the Apache jars that have been OSGi-enabled and they just put the classes and/or JARs in the root of the JAR and specify the appropriate packages on Import-Packages and Export-Package in the MANIFEST. Your best practice is a little more "pure" in terms of generating a "proper" OSGi bundle -- at the expense of more more project to build the JAR for the bundle.
Chris IBM Middleware Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 224-2240 Internet: [email protected] From: "Robert Scholte" <[email protected]> To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]> Date: 12/12/2015 07:07 AM Subject: Re: maven-compiler-plugin cannot find class files in WEB-INF/classes Hi Chris, this isn't really a maven-compiler-plugin issue. This is how the java compiler (JAVA_HOME/bin/javac) works, or to be more precise: how the classpath works. It expects that the packages are in the root of the archive, not in a subdirectory like WEB-INF/classes. Best practice in this case: have a separate Maven module for the classes and include it as jar dependency to your war or generate an extra jar with your war containing the classes [1]. You'll get an extra webapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT-classes.jar. If you want to use this, add <classifier>classes</classifier> to your dependency. thanks, Robert [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/war-mojo.html#archiveClasses Op Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:19:11 +0100 schreef Chris Barlock <[email protected]>: > I used the maven-bundle-plugin to create a Web Application Bundle in > which > the class files are in WEB-INF/classes and the MANIFEST.MF confirms this: > > Bundle-ClassPath: WEB-INF/classes > > If I try to use this WAB (packaged as a JAR) as a dependency for the > maven-compiler-plugin, it can't find any of the class files in the JAR. > If > I change the JAR such that the class files are in the root of the JAR > rather than in WEB-INF classes, then maven-compiler-plugin is happy. Is > it possible to use WABs with the maven-compiler-plugin? > > Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
