[jira] Created: (MAVEN-1084) Composition of dependencies from many projects (a route round multiple inheritance)

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        Key: MAVEN-1084
    Summary: Composition of dependencies from many projects (a route round multiple inheritance)
       Type: New Feature

     Status: Unassigned
   Priority: Minor

 Original Estimate: 4 hours
 Time Spent: Unknown
  Remaining: 4 hours

    Project: maven
 Components: 
             core

   Assignee: 
   Reporter: Mike Melia

    Created: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:40 AM
    Updated: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:40 AM

Description:
I have an EAR project that has (mostly) the same dependencies as an EJB project. 
The EAR project includes the dependent jars in the EAR artifact. 
The EJB project requires the dependent jars for compilation and for them to be included in the manifest classpath.
I also have another project that builds a utility jar for use by both the EAR and EJB project.

All projects extend a base project with the usual info defined (developers names etc.). This single inheritance forces me to duplicate the common dependency declarations in each subproject.

Ideally I would like an include tag in the dependencies section.

I have coded a workaround which allows for a space separated list of project files in the <extend> tag. e.g <extend>../project.xml ../common_dependencies.xml</extend>
The first file would be the parent project and the subsequent files would contain common dependencies. i.e. inherit from the parent and have dependencies composed from siblings.

I will submit a patch for that functionality as soon as I get away from the corporate firewall.

Please let me know if this sort of functionality has already been planned. TIA.


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