Cannot skip repackage goal of spring-boot-maven-plugin - maven-2

I have a multi-module Maven project that contains an application consisting of several Spring Boot services. I am trying to set up integration and end-to-end tests for the services and am using a combination Maven plugins to orchestrate this.
I have one module that is intended to contain only end-to-end tests for groups of collaborating services that perform some work. It contains only test code and resources. I'm using the failsafe plugin (org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin) to perform the integration tests, the Spring Boot Maven plugin (org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin) to start and stop the "main" service and the Maven exec plugin (org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin) to start the other services that are being used in the end-to-end tests.
I'm running into a problem that appears to be related to the repackage goal of the Spring Boot plugin. The e2e module has nothing that needs to be repackaged, so I want to skip this goal. Shouldn't be too hard, right?
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
<execution>
...
Well, this doesn't work. It runs repackage despite this.
The problem with this, is that the Maven build fails because it can't find a "main" class to repackage (as an executable jar, I believe). Well, there is no main class for this module.
The more important question is: why is <skip>true</skip> being ignored?

You need to add <id>repackage</id> after execution above goals.

I was also facing the same issue. I resolved it by using <pluginManagement> tag above <plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>

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How to skip install phase in Maven build if I already have this version installed in repo

I have a project that consist of 3 different libraries. When I run install script it takes all libraries from repo and run mvn clean install on them. But this version of library already installed in repo. Is there a way to skip install phase if version in pom.xml equal version in my local repo.
I know that I can use local repo and just set dependencies. But my boss want that our project can build only with public repos and without any our repos.
You can bypass like this
-Dmaven.install.skip=true
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>skipInstall</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>maven.install.skip</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
</activation>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-install</id>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</profile>
Last week Olivier Lamy patched this jira.
MINSTALL-73
Most maven plugins can be skipped by specifying something like:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>X.Y</version>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
you can also set up build profiles to set properties and use that to determine the value. for example, running the command: mvn -Pexample would select the "example" profile. The POM would then contain:
...
<properties>
<skip.install>false</skip.install>
...
</properties>
...
<profile>
<id>example</id>
<properties>
<skip.install>false</skip.install>
</properties>
</profile>
...
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>X.Y</version>
<configuration>
<skip>${skip.install}</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
Using these POM additions, the default behavior for the install plugin will be to perform its default goal, but if the example profile is selected, then the install plugin will skip its goal.
Using what I learned from the other answers, this was the cleanest result for me.
In my super pom I added a pluginManagement/plugin to disable default-install and default-test phases when the property deployOnly is set.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-install</id>
<configuration>
<skip>${deployOnly}</skip>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>default-test</id>
<configuration>
<skip>${deployOnly}</skip>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
So on the command line, I can disable install and test phases by adding -DdeployOnly.
mvn clean install #build and test everything
mvn deploy -DdeployOnly #just deploy it
I know that I can use local repo and just set dependencies. But my boss want that our project can build only with public repos and without any our repos.
Are you sure you understood correctly what you boss meant? I interpret the above as "don't install third party libraries in your local repository, use only libraries available in public repositories". This is different from "don't use your local repository" which is basically impossible, that's just not how maven works. I'd try to clarify this point.
Apart from that, I don't get the question which is very confusing (what repo are you talking about? What is the install script doing? Why do you call clean install on libraries? etc).
Extending the other answers, from the future.
Maven plugins have a surprisingly high freedom, how do they run. If they want, they can ignore/override the typical pom.xml settings. Furthermore, also the <configuration><skip>true</skip></configuration> is only a convention, nothing obligates a plugin to follow it, except that most of them is developed so.
My experiments with the recent problem show, that both #Cemo's and #MiloshBoroyevich solution should be utilized, also the plugin requires both to really let us in peace. More concretely, the only working configuration by me was this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-install</id>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
One of your options is to put the deployment to another module. I.e. have one pom.xml build the artifact and install it to the local repo, and another pom.xml to deploy it. This separation is quite common in larger projects, where the testsuite is sometimes a separate module or even a project, the packaging happens in several stages, etc.
- pom.xml - myProject-root - type=pom
- pom.xml - myProject-artifact - type=jar
- pom.xml - myProject-deploy - type=pom, does the deployment, skips it's own `install` goal

How to make jetty-maven-plugin deploy a war that is retrieved from a repository?

I'm setting up an integration test module for a good sized web project. The integration test module is separated from the web project itself, and it has it's own pom.
The idea is to use the maven-soapui-plugin to send requests and verify the response. Setting up the soapui-plugin is no hassle. However, I'm having trouble with figuring out how I can tell the jetty-maven-plugin to deploy a war from a remote repository.
If I have understood correctly, the jetty-maven-plugin has a property called '<webApp>/<webApp>' which lets me specify the war file to deploy. The problem is that the war file is not present in the module itself.
I have heard that I can use the maven assembly plugin to retrieve the war from a repository via the projects artifactId, but I am yet to figure out how I would go about doing so.
Here's a summary of what I want:
Retrieve a specific war from a repository or the like, in example via its artifactId.
Deploy this war to the jetty-maven-plugin (goal deploy-war?)
get maven-soapui-plugin to run tests and report the results back in the integration-test phase.
I am pretty sure I've got step 3 covered, but I am very unsure how to achieve step 1 and 2.
Any help is greatly appreciated
It is maybe possible to use dependency:copy to retrieve the war, unpack it and to get the whole thing working with the maven jetty plugin, but this would be hacky and kinda ugly. A cleaner solution would be to use the Maven Cargo plugin and this is my suggestion. Below, a sample POM showing how to retrieve a WAR artifact using its coordinates and how to deploy it on an embedded Jetty container using Cargo:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>war group id</groupId>
<artifactId>war artifact id</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<version>war version</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<!-- Container configuration -->
<container>
<containerId>jetty6x</containerId>
<type>embedded</type>
</container>
<!-- Configuration to use with the container or the deployer -->
<configuration>
<deployables>
<deployable>
<groupId>war group id</groupId>
<artifactId>war artifact id</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<properties>
<context>war context</context>
</properties>
</deployable>
</deployables>
</configuration>
<!-- Don't wait, execute the tests after the container is started -->
<wait>false</wait>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-container</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-container</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
Finally, just bind the soapui plugin on the integration-test phase.
I'm doing the same thing, John, but I took a different approach with the Jetty plugin. I think the end result is the same. I'm developing an integration-test suite to run against several web service WARs. I'm using dependency:copy in the package phase and then a list of <contextHandler/>s configured for maven-jetty-plugin:
<project>
…
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-wars</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/wars-to-be-tested</outputDirectory>
<stripVersion>true</stripVersion>
<artifactItems>
…
<artifactItem>
<groupId>groupId</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
<version>version</version>
<type>war</type>
</artifactItem>
…
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>7.1.3.v20100526</version>
<configuration>
…
<contextHandlers>
…
<contextHandler implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.plugin.JettyWebAppContext">
<war>${project.build.directory}/wars-to-be-tested/artifactId.war</war>
<contextPath>/context</contextPath>
</contextHandler>
</contextHandlers>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-jetty</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
<daemon>true</daemon>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-jetty</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I would prefer to declare the various wars as dependencies and then use dependency:copy-dependencies to set up the wars-to-be-tested directory; this would allow the Maven reactor to figure out that it needs to build my integration-test module after the wars it'll be testing. The problem I ran into was that the Jetty plugin thought that I wanted to "overlay" all of the wars that were listed as dependencies (a concept that I'd never even heard of until I saw it happen); I don't know if allowing that to happen would have hurt anything, but I didn't like it, so I went with the dependency:copy method.
This is just an alternative to using Cargo. I'll be looking into that myself, but I just wanted to provide another way of doing it.

How to wrap an Ant build with Maven?

We use maven for our large-ish product. All of our artifacts are deployed to a shared archiva repository using the maven deploy goal. I am now integrating a third party product that has an ant build. I know how to call ant targets from maven using the antrun plugin, but I'm not sure how to setup the pom in this instance. I don't want maven to actually generate an artifact, but I do want it to pull the artifact that was built by ant when the maven deploy goal is run.
I am planning on having the pom adjacent to build.xml. The pom will use the antrun plugin in the package goal to call the ant target at the appropriate time to build the .war artifact.
Questions:
a) I am creating a .war file but it is created via ant, not Maven, so having a war packaging type in the pom doesn't make sense. What should my packaging type be?
b) How do I cause maven to pull the artifact from my ant output directory for the deploy goal?
c) If there are no good answers to A and B, then are there ant tasks that replicate the maven deploy functionality for getting my .war artifact into the shared repository?
You can use the maven-antrun-plugin to invoke the ant build. Then use the build-helper-maven-plugin to attach the jar produced by ant to the project. The attached artifact will be installed/deployed alongside the pom.
If you specify your project with packaging pom, Maven will not conflict with the ant build.
In the example below, the ant build.xml is assumed to be in src/main/ant, have a compile goal, and output to ant-output.jar.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ant antfile="src/main/ant/build.xml" target="compile"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-jar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>${project.build.directory}/ant-output.jar</file>
<type>jar</type>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You can actually wrap an ANT project with Maven by using multiple ant run goals as I wrote in a different question. Assuming your existing ant project has clean and build tasks, this might be a useful way of wrapping the project so you can use maven goals and have it map to existing ant code.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install-library</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>x.x</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-out-atifacts</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<file>ant-output.jar</file>
<packaging>zip</packaging>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Refer this: Why you should use the Maven Ant Tasks instead of Maven or Ivy
And specifically, how to invoke a Maven goal from Ant can be found in this example:
http://code.google.com/p/perfbench/source/browse/trunk/perfbench/grails-gorm/build.xml
With the information above you should be able to achieve what you need. Let me know if you have any questions.

Maven-2: avoid default packaging?

My project uses many assemblies, hence I'm interested only in the assemblies.
On executing mvn install apart from the assemblies, I'm getting the default packaged .jar.
How can I avoid this?
I have a pom.xml similar to the one you have provided.
On executing mvn install, I'm getting App1.jar, App2.jar, and snapshot jar containing all contents
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>assemblyone</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<finalName>App1</finalName>
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>${basedir}/src/main/resources/assemblies/report.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>assemblytwo</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<finalName>App2</finalName>
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>${basedir}/src/main/resources/assemblies/src.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
How can I avoid this snapshot (not sure of the exact term) jar and ensure that only assemblies are created?
I can read your question two ways, I've outlined answers for both below. If neither is correct, can you modify your question with a bit more explanation please.
1) Do you mean you have a project with default (jar) packaging, and you want to avoid the creation of the jar when no assembly is defined? If this is the case, what is the build achieving if no assembly is defined?
2) Do you instead mean that you are running mvn assembly:assembly to generate the assembly and want to know how to get that assembly when running the install goal?
For option 2, you can bind the assembly-plugin to a lifecycle phase to ensure it is always run, if you specify that <appendAssemblyId> should be false, then the assembly will replace the default jar.
For example, this configuration will invoke the assembly plugin during the packaging phase and replace the default jar:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>src/main/assembly/archive.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
For option 1, this is actually quite tricky to do. The best I can think of is to specify that the project has pom packaging and configure the project with the executions normally bound to the jar lifecycle in a profile. The lifecycle bindings you'd need to configure are listed in the introduction to the build lifecycle
I'm not sure that you can really do that in a really simple way.
A solution is to call the clean plugin once the build is achieved, by doing that:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>auto-clean</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>clean</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
</build>
This way, the JAR created in the target/ directory will be deleted at the end of the Maven2 execution.
However, you will have to define another directory to store the assemblies created by Maven2. Otherwise, it will be deleted by the call of the clean plugin... If you want to store them in the directory assemblies-target/, you can add that in the pom.xml file:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-4</version>
<configuration>
...
<!-- Copy the ZIP in target/ of the ROOT directory. -->
<outputDirectory>assemblies-target</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
...
I think it would be much more clear if you showed us your whole POM and the artifacts that are being built. I can only guess as to what the problem is because your terminology is not what I am familiar with. This is my guess as to the problem: you have a POM configured to generated two assembly JARs, but you get a third JAR for the POM itself. In other words, if your POM's artifactId is MyApp, you are getting a MyApp-1.0.0.jar or similar in addition to the two JARs you actually want.
If that is the case, the problem boils down to that you are using Maven to create multiple artifacts from a single module. Maven is designed to produce only one primary artifact from each module. What I would do is change your POM to have a packaging type of "pom" and give it two modules in a <modules> section named App1 and App2. Create sub-directories under your module, one for each App. Give them each a POM configured for a single assembly, with a packaging type of "jar". Move the code/files/etc. as appropriate into each sub-module so there aren't any remaining in the parent module.
With Maven, if you find yourself generating two artifacts from one module (which you are), you should first consider that you are probably violating a Maven best-practice and rearrange things so you only produce one artifact per module.
Please let me know if this doesn't make sense and I will try to clarify.

Maven2 Multiproject Cobertura Reporting Problems During mvn site Build

We've got a multiproject we're trying to run Cobertura test coverage reports on as part of our mvn site build. I can get Cobertura to run on the child projects, but it erroneously reports 0% coverage, even though the reports still highlight the lines of code that were hit by the unit tests.
We are using mvn 2.0.8. I have tried running mvn clean site, mvn clean site:stage and mvn clean package site. I know the tests are running, they show up in the surefire reports (both the txt/xml and site reports). Am I missing something in the configuration? Does Cobertura not work right with multiprojects?
This is in the parent .pom:
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>clean</id>
<goals>
<goal>clean</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<inherited>true</inherited>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
I've tried running it with and without the following in the child .poms:
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
I get this in the output of the build:
...
[INFO] [cobertura:instrument]
[INFO] Cobertura 1.9 - GNU GPL License (NO WARRANTY) - See COPYRIGHT file
Instrumenting 3 files to C:\workspaces\sandbox\CommonJsf\target\generated-classes\cobertura
Cobertura: Saved information on 3 classes.
Instrument time: 186ms
[INFO] Instrumentation was successful.
...
[INFO] Generating "Cobertura Test Coverage" report.
[INFO] Cobertura 1.9 - GNU GPL License (NO WARRANTY) - See COPYRIGHT file
Cobertura: Loaded information on 3 classes.
Report time: 481ms
[INFO] Cobertura Report generation was successful.
And the report looks like this:
I suspect that you're missing an execution of cobertura plugin during the compile phase so that the code only gets instrumented by the reporting plugins, in the site lifecycle, after the tests were run. So the test runs aren't picked up because they run on non-instrumented code. Analyze your build logs more carefully - if I'm right, you'll notice that surefire tests are executed before cobertura:instrument.
My configuration is similar to yours, but in addition to specifying the clean exectution in pluginManagement (like you), I specify the cobertura plugin explicitly in build plugins section:
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${cobertura.plugin.version}</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
My configuration sorta works, and all Cobertura stuff is in the global organization-wide pom, which all projects use as a parent.
This way projects don't specify anything Cobertura-related in their pom.xml's, but they still generate coverage reports.
I haven't been succesful at getting Cobertura to combine reporting from multi-projects. This has been a problem in general with multi-project reporting.
We have been evaluating sonar as a solution for our metrics reporting. It seems to do a great job of providing summary metrics across projects, including multi-proijects.
The solution implemented by me is somewhat manual, but works. It consists of several steps of one is a step to combine the several .ser files that are generated by Cobertura. This can be done by using the cobertura-merge commandline tool inside a maven task.
According to the output you show is that the files are not actually instrumented, it tells that only 3 files are instrumented.
#Marco is right, it is not possible to achieve this normally through maven only as the maven cobertura plugin is missing a merge goal.
You can achieve it through a mix of maven and ant goals : http://thomassundberg.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/test-coverage-in-a-multi-module-maven-project/
Nevertheless, in the case you have one single project undertest, there is no need to merge. You can, in the test project, copy the .ser file and the instrumented classes from the project under test :
//in test project
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.goldin</groupId>
<artifactId>copy-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.2.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-cobertura-data-from-project-under-test</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${project.basedir}/../<project-under-test>/target/cobertura</directory>
<targetPath>${project.basedir}/target/cobertura</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>*.ser</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>${project.basedir}/../<project-under-test>/target/generated-classes/cobertura/</directory>
<targetPath>${project.basedir}/target/generated-classes/cobertura</targetPath>
<preservePath>true</preservePath>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
//in parent project
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<format>xml</format>
<aggregate>true</aggregate>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>clean</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${cobertura.version}</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>