[jira] Commented: (MECLIPSE-94) Allow eclipse:eclipse to work on pom (and other) projects

["Jim Sellers (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Jim Sellers commented on MECLIPSE-94:
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Just to add another use case:

1) you check out the pom project and its nested modules (eclipse generates the parent .project file)
2) you run eclipse:eclipse to generate all needed files
3) you'd like to clean something up, so you call eclipse:clean
4) now eclipse doesn't recognize the project at all so you can't make any changes to the parent pom since the .project files is gone

This has happened quite often where I work.  The work around is usually to comment out the modules section, change the type from "pom" to "jar", call eclipse:eclipse, and then undo the changes to the pom.xml file.  That's pretty annoying.

It would be great (as many have suggested) to just create a simple .project for projects of type pom.

> Allow eclipse:eclipse to work on pom (and other) projects
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MECLIPSE-94
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-94
>             Project: Maven 2.x Eclipse Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Felipe Leme
>         Attachments: MECLIPSE-94.patch
>
>
> I'm creating a Java EE project based on the m2book (which I was reviewing; it's not available yet...) and one of the projects is a pom-packaging project used for integration tests. According to Vincent, currently this project must be a pom (in fact, I tried to set it as jar, but then the test phase would be run anyway, which would cause the tests to fail), as it doesn't produces a jar. But as it has java files (on the src/main/it/java directory), I tried to call eclipse:eclipse but it fails, saying that "Not running eclipse plugin goal for pom project".
> For these scenarios, I think a propery would be enough. At first I thought something about a 'force' or 'forceGeneration' property, would enough, which the code change being from:
>  if ( "pom".equals( packaging ) && eclipseProjectDir == null ) 
> to:
>  if (  "pom".equals( packaging ) && eclipseProjectDir == null && !forceGeneration ) 
> Then I realized there is other place where the pom nature is checked:
>  if (  "pom".equals( packaging ) && eclipseProjectDir == null && !forceGeneration ) 
> So, I think a better name for the property would be 'javaProject' and the change would be:
> final boolean isJavaProjectProperty = // read property; defaults to false...
>  if (  "pom".equals( packaging ) && eclipseProjectDir == null && !isJavaProjectProperty ) 
> isJavaProject = isJavaProjectProperty || !"ear".equals( packaging ) && !"pom".equals( packaging );
> If nobody objects and someone is willing to apply the changes, I can provide such patch (with the proper test cases).
> -- Felipe
> PS: I'm assigning it to Vincent for now, as he 'dreamed' that such features already existed :-)

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