Kent Närling wrote:
I do understand the dependency and packaging concepts, but I failed to get
it working by refering to another artifact even though i ran "mvn install"
on the dependent artifact. (ok, it only installed it in my local repository,
but that shouldn't matter?)
But this is the way it is supposed to work apparently?
This is the way maven in general works, what did you expect?
So, the EAR packaging is actually just an artifact packaging a bunch of
other artifacts into an EAR package?
Yes. Are you sure you understand what EAR means? See [0]. Again, what
did you expect?
The documentation for the EAR plugin describes this badly... also, what
packaging types should the referred packages have? I assume jar?
In a normal Enterprise Application, it is common to have at least one
EJB and one WAR. Thus, the dependent projects should have packaging ejb
and war, respectively.
IMHO the EAR plugin doc is not perfect, but clear enough iff you know
what an EAR is and what it is used for.
So actually, to get you started, your EAR pom could look something like
this:
...
<packaging>ear</packaging>
...
<dependencies>
<dependency>
...
<type>ejb</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
...
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
This should be all that is needed for starters. If you need to configure
special things the application.xml, you can add:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<webModule>
...
<contextRoot>/myWebApp</contextRoot>
</webModule>
...
<jarModule>
...
<includeInApplicationXml>true</includeInApplicationXml>
</jarModule>
...
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
regards,
Stefan
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAR_(file_format)
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best regards,
Stefan Seidel
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