[m2] generate-sources plugins

[Ashley Williams <ag...@mac.com>]

Just wondering if anyone can recommend an approach for writing a  
plugin that generates sources (in my case jaxb-xjc). In particular my  
first thought was to generate the source right there in the source  
tree, but this causes problems for the clean:clean goal that will  
never delete them. I also think it would be dangerous to tinker with  
the clean behavior to try to delete stuff outside of the target  
directory.

My only other thought was to generate the sources directly in the  
target directory (create if necessary) and add that to the compiler  
sources.

Just to compound the problem further, jaxb-xjc generates a properties  
file in with the sources (ie not resources) that would need to be  
moved over to the target directory. I'm leaning towards making this  
latter option fly, unless somebody can put forward a clean third way.

Thanks
AW

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Re: [m2] generate-sources plugins

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

On 10/11/05, Ashley Williams <ag...@mac.com> wrote:
> My only other thought was to generate the sources directly in the
> target directory (create if necessary) and add that to the compiler
> sources.

That's how we do it in all the other source gen plugins (antlr,
modello, clover).

You can also add a resource root in that directory to copy the properties files.

- Brett

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