I'm turning a single Eclipse Maven-managed webapp project in a multi-module Maven project (this is a test project to experiment with Maven, so feel free to provide any kind of suggestion).
The single project webapp doean't have any error, succesfully compiles and behaves correctly when deployed, so I'm starting with a working application.
The application has a web part and a console part, meaning that there are some classes with a main()
method that when run from within Eclipse (with Run as -> Java Application) work as expected. Both parts show data from a database, queried either directly through JDBC or through jOOQ.
So, this is how I split the project:
- core (holds everything common to the other two parts);
- runnable (contains the classes that have a
main()
method); - webapp (the web application part).
Inside Eclipse, I have now 4 separate projects:
shaker-multi
holds the aggregator (and parent) POM, plus each module in a subdirectory;shaker-multi-core
;shaker-multi-runnable
;shaker-multi-webapp
.
Inside Eclipse, core and webapp compile, and the latter can be deployed to a Tomcat instance and I can see it in the browser.
The problem arises with runnable. That project relies on jOOQ classes, so the relevant source code must be generated. The jOOQ dependencies and configuration are in core/pom.xml
(since they may be used there too).
When I do Project -> Run As -> Maven build... -> clean generate-sources
, on shaker-multi-core
I get:
Non-resolvable parent POM: Failure to find sunshine.web:shaker-multi:pom:0.0.1
which sounds reasonable, since I didn't install any of those artifacts, even in my local repository.
But when I call Maven build... -> 'clean install' on shaker-multi
, it breaks because it can't find the web.xml
file for shaker-multi-webapp
(although it correctly resides in shaker-multi-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
).
What should I do? Is my project configuration / splitting totally wrong? Should I add another module with the parent POM? This sounds wrong, since the POM Reference states:
Inheritance and aggregation create a nice dynamic to control builds through a single, high-level POM. You will often see projects that are both parents and aggregators.
I'm totally lost here.
My expectations:
- run
Maven package
onshaker-multi-webapp
and obtain a deployable war; - run
Maven package
onshaker-multi-runnable
and obtain a command line runnable jar (I still need to configure its POM to generate a jar-with-dependencies, though, I know); - run
Maven package
onshaker-multi
and obtain some kind of bundle that I can move around and that will contain the war or the jar of each module.
EDIT
I added
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
to shaker-multi-webapp
POM, as seen in this answer, but with no difference.
EDIT-2
I cleared my whole local repository (as suggested here), and when I reopened Eclipse, in the Maven console I saw
[...] 05/09/14 07:58:19 CEST: [INFO] Adding source folder /shaker-multi-webapp/src/main/java 05/09/14 07:58:19 CEST: [INFO] Adding source folder /shaker-multi-webapp/src/test/java **05/09/14 07:58:19 CEST: [ERROR] Could not read web.xml** [...]
Any hint? From where does it come from? I can't reproduce it though (without removing again my whole local repo).
This is shaker-multi
POM:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>sunshine.web</groupId>
<artifactId>shaker-multi</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<modules>
<module>shaker-multi-core</module>
<module>shaker-multi-runnable</module>
<module>shaker-multi-webapp</module>
</modules>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
This is shaker-multi-core
POM:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>sunshine.web</groupId>
<artifactId>shaker-multi</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>shaker-multi-core</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin><!-- jOOQ plugin--></plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency><!-- jOOQ dependency --></dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
This is shaker-multi-webapp
POM:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>sunshine.web</groupId>
<artifactId>shaker-multi</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>shaker-multi-webapp</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin><!-- Tomcat local -->
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>sunshine.web</groupId>
<artifactId>shaker-multi-core</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<!-- JSP & Servlet dependencies -->
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>