[jira] Commented: (MNG-641) Collapse "generate-sources" and "generate-resources" into "generate"

["Kenney Westerhof (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

    [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-641?page=comments#action_43419 ] 

Kenney Westerhof commented on MNG-641:
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generate-sources is before generate-resources, which might not always be the correct ordering.

I had a usecase that really isn't very relevant anymore, it went something like this:

- extract metadata from database to xml file
- generate sources and resources (.sql files) from xml file

However normally the extraction will not be done..

Another usecase which we used succesfully in a project is this:

- we have a set of text files defining forms (src/main/resources)
- they are parsed and converted into xml files (generate-resources)
- these are converted to sources using xslt (generate-sources)
- some of these are run, producing more resources (sql / jsp) (process-sources + generate-resources)

This is reversed from the compiler-compiler situation: generate-sources, generate-(re)sources.

I think collapsing them would be a good idea so the ordering can then be defined in the pom. Although currently
you can override a plugin's phase, moving it in the lifecycle.

> Collapse "generate-sources" and "generate-resources" into "generate"
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>
>          Key: MNG-641
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-641
>      Project: Maven 2
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: maven-plugins, maven-core
>     Reporter: Trygve Laugstol
>     Assignee: Brett Porter

>
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> It's not unlikely that you'd like to generate sources from generated resources. 
> A not that far fetched use case is that we might generate components.xml and then generate remote stubs for the components found in components.xml.
> The same might apply to process-sources and -resources.

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