Newbie Multiproject question

["Weston, Toby" <to...@Misys.com>]

Hi Guys,

Probably a silly question but can I use the multiple projects plugin for
projects that aren't under the standard (single?) folder structure?

ie, instead of having;

projectroot
projectroot\project.xml

projectroot\projectA
projectroot\projectA\projectA.xml

projectroot\projectB
projectroot\projectB\project.xml


I'd like;

projectroot\
projectroot\project.xml (the 'parent')

projectA
projectA\projectA.xml

projectB
projectB\project.xml


I was thinking you could have something like;

maven.multiproject.includes=../projectA/project.xml

in the properties for the root project (project.properties?). Does that make
any sense at all!? When I try, it seems the multi project plugin doesn't
recognise the sub-projects, ie,

maven -X multiproject:goal -Dgoal=java:compile

outputs;

multiproject:projects-init:
    [echo] Gathering project list
Starting the reactor...
Our processing order:
Starting the reactor...
using existing list of projects: []
Our processing order:
attaining goal build:end

which I assume means it hasn't found anything (as it didn't do the compile).
I added maven.multiproject.type entries in each sub-projects properties.

Any tips would be much appreciated. The reason for trying this BTW is just
because I have legacy projects and I'd like to keep the change history in
CVS rather than move them to a more standard structure.

Thanks in advance,
Toby

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Re: Newbie Multiproject question

[Michael Böckling <mi...@giniality.com>]

Hi Toby,

you can't "change directories" with the includes/excludes expression. 
But instead, you can try the following:

maven.multiproject.basedir=${basedir}/../
maven.multiproject.includes=projectA/project.xml

This is because the directory scanner will scan all subdirs of 
maven.multiproject.basedir and match them against the given expressions.

Cheers,
Michael Böckling

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>Hi Guys,
>
>Probably a silly question but can I use the multiple projects plugin for
>projects that aren't under the standard (single?) folder structure?
>
>ie, instead of having;
>
>projectroot
>projectroot\project.xml
>
>projectroot\projectA
>projectroot\projectA\projectA.xml
>
>projectroot\projectB
>projectroot\projectB\project.xml
>
>
>I'd like;
>
>projectroot\
>projectroot\project.xml (the 'parent')
>
>projectA
>projectA\projectA.xml
>
>projectB
>projectB\project.xml
>
>
>I was thinking you could have something like;
>
>maven.multiproject.includes=../projectA/project.xml
>
>in the properties for the root project (project.properties?). Does that make
>any sense at all!? When I try, it seems the multi project plugin doesn't
>recognise the sub-projects, ie,
>
>maven -X multiproject:goal -Dgoal=java:compile
>
>outputs;
>
>multiproject:projects-init:
>    [echo] Gathering project list
>Starting the reactor...
>Our processing order:
>Starting the reactor...
>using existing list of projects: []
>Our processing order:
>attaining goal build:end
>
>which I assume means it hasn't found anything (as it didn't do the compile).
>I added maven.multiproject.type entries in each sub-projects properties.
>
>Any tips would be much appreciated. The reason for trying this BTW is just
>because I have legacy projects and I'd like to keep the change history in
>CVS rather than move them to a more standard structure.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Toby
>
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