Thanks for the quicky reply Dan. When you said "you can deploy multiple artifacts under one project", did you mean that that one project contains multiple modules?
I was following your advice from this earlier response: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg41540.html ...where you said that for my project-obfuscated-jar module, to "write your own plugin (or custom antrun) to scramble the project-jar". But I'm thinking now that I don't need project-jar (with pom.xml) and project-obfuscated-jar (with pom.xml) modules. I just need one project with one pom.xml and create multiple artifacts (using different classifier types) with my own plugin or the build-helper-maven-plugin. Do you agree? -----Original Message----- From: dan tran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:53 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Multi modules: project-jar and project-obfuscated-jar help On 5/16/06, Dave Comeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to design a multi-module project to do a variety of steps that > I > currently do in my existing Ant build system, and was previously given > some > advice to setup one module to create the standard jar artifact, and then > create another module (which has a dependency on the jar module) to create > the obfuscated jar. > > Being new to Maven, I can't see how to do this. In theory I will want the > project-ofuscated-jar to access (and unpackage?) the project-jar's freshly > created jar file and then obfuscate the classes using antrun or a custom > plugin. > > I'm hoping someone can shed some light on how this is actually done. I > can't find any documentation on multi-modules that explains the > relationship > between modules in the context that I need. > > Here are my questions: > > 1) I assume that by M2 design, project-obfuscated-jar should not directly > access the classes/ in project-jar. Instead it should access the > project-jar JAR artifact. Is this correct? Maven 2 now allows artifact classifier type, ie you can deploy mulitple artifacts under one project. So I dont see why not apply to your use case since it is much simpler. So you need a use antrun to do the obfuscation and use build-helper-maven-plugin to help with deploy thru attach goal. 2) Would project-jar's jar artifact first need to be deployed to the > repository before the project-obfuscated-jar can access it? > > 3) Assume that project-obfuscated-jar uses antrun to feed the classes > produced by project-jar into the obfuscator. How do I directly reference > project-jar's JAR file? > > 4) Is it bad practice to reference peer projects/modules using "../.." > type > references? > > 5) Is there any documentation/references on multi-modules outside of the > typical use cases where a multi-module project is just a set of projects > each with their own source tree? I feel I am trying to apply the > multi-module functionality to a more specialized use case that is > certainly > within the capabilities of Maven, but it's not typical and the > documentation > hasn't expanded beyond the mainstream use cases yet. > > Thank you for your help > DaveC > > > > >
