Maven self-contained child artifact

问题:

I have a project which has 3 pom files: parent file (very basic one, just declares its children), main pom for building project itself and a pom file for generating swagger client library. The client artifact is getting downloaded into our Nexus.

The problem is that when I want to use a client library in another project as a dependency it also requires a parent artifact. I don't want to download it into Nexus since it's so basic and will only flood the repository. I've tried packing some kind of an uber-jar, but it doesn't work for me - jar is huge and contains all dependencies, yet it still needs parent artifact. Are there any workarounds?

回答1:

While I generally would not care about having an additional Parent POM in the repository (our repository contains 2000 different self-created artifacts in various versions, it is not "flooded"), you can have a look at the

https://www.mojohaus.org/flatten-maven-plugin/

which allows you to make your pom smaller, and includes the possibility to get away without a Parent POM.