Muliple sub-projects - want to produce a single jar

[Ed Ross <ed...@gmail.com>]

This really shouldn't be this hard.


I have several (5) sub-projects which is following the maven "best
practices" (I think).

I just want to product a SINGLE jar, not 5 little jars.

I've been trying to understand the assembly stuff, but can not seem to get
all of the projects included in the results.

this is a simple little project that took several hours to code, but is
taking many hours to try an build/deploy.

yes - I'm new at mave,but this seems like it should be a common task.

thanks for any help



-- 
Ed Ross
edross15057@gmail.com

Re: Muliple sub-projects - want to produce a single jar

[Ed Ross <ed...@gmail.com>]

Ok - where do I put the maven-assebly-plugin?

is it:
a - at the top level pom
b - one of the child projects
c - in a new project that I create just for assembly
d - every sub-project pom

If I put it at the top level I get the error
[INFO] Failed to configure plugin parameters for:
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.1
    (found static expression: 'jar-with-dependencies' which may act as a
default value).
Cause: Cannot assign configuration entry 'descriptorRefs' to 'class [
Ljava.lang.String;' from 'jar-with-depend
encies', which is of type class java.lang.String

if I put it in the main child project I get a jar - but only classes from
that sub-project

If I create a separate project with dependecies to all the other sub
projects I get a jar with nothing


While experimenting I frequently get :

[INFO] [assembly:assembly]
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] No assembly descriptors found.


Maven has done a wonderful job of making the complex things easy,  However
in doing this, they seemed to have made the simple things complex.

I would just use ant, but our direction is to have all projects with the
same basic structure and build methods (which is a good thing)

thx for any help




On 7/5/06, Henry S. Isidro <hi...@exist.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, July 6, 2006 03:42, Ed Ross wrote:
> > This really shouldn't be this hard.
> >
> >
> > I have several (5) sub-projects which is following the maven "best
> > practices" (I think).
> >
> > I just want to product a SINGLE jar, not 5 little jars.
> >
> > I've been trying to understand the assembly stuff, but can not seem to
> get
> > all of the projects included in the results.
> >
> > this is a simple little project that took several hours to code, but is
> > taking many hours to try an build/deploy.
> >
> > yes - I'm new at mave,but this seems like it should be a common task.
> >
> > thanks for any help
>
> You're on the right track with the assembly plugin. Post your actual
> problems
> with the assembly so that we could help.
>
> - Henry
>
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-- 
Ed Ross
edross15057@gmail.com

Re: Muliple sub-projects - want to produce a single jar

["Henry S. Isidro" <hi...@exist.com>]

On Thursday, July 6, 2006 03:42, Ed Ross wrote:
> This really shouldn't be this hard.
>
>
> I have several (5) sub-projects which is following the maven "best
> practices" (I think).
>
> I just want to product a SINGLE jar, not 5 little jars.
>
> I've been trying to understand the assembly stuff, but can not seem to get
> all of the projects included in the results.
>
> this is a simple little project that took several hours to code, but is
> taking many hours to try an build/deploy.
>
> yes - I'm new at mave,but this seems like it should be a common task.
>
> thanks for any help

You're on the right track with the assembly plugin. Post your actual problems 
with the assembly so that we could help.

- Henry

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