How to share project?

[Andrey Ilinykh <ai...@gmail.com>]

Hello all!
I have several projects which share the same class library. I don't want to
release that library.
When I create pom file for my library I have to create <parent> element.
After that this library is not reusable any more. If I use eclipse, for
example, I would add dependency to parent project, I don't have to modify
library. How to do the same in maven?

Thank you,
  Andrey

Re: How to share project?

["Walid \"jo\" Gedeon" <wg...@gmail.com>]

Hello Andrey, what do you mean by "After that this library is not reusable
any more"?
Without being sure I understand the situation fully, it looks like you want
your parent project to have a dependency to that library, and then have your
several projects extend that parent project's pom?
So I would say, instead of adding a dependency to the parent project, extend
it.

<project ...>
  <groupId>...</groupId>
  <artifactId>child-project</artifactId>

  <parent>
    <groupId>...</groupId>
    <artifactId>parent-project</artifactId>
    <version>...</version>
    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
  </parent>
...

Please read more on that here:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html

HTH
w

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Andrey Ilinykh <ai...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all!
> I have several projects which share the same class library. I don't want to
> release that library.
> When I create pom file for my library I have to create <parent> element.
> After that this library is not reusable any more. If I use eclipse, for
> example, I would add dependency to parent project, I don't have to modify
> library. How to do the same in maven?
>
> Thank you,
>   Andrey
>