I need to add some flags for unit tests, and want to share them for all team members. IntelliJ has a solution to share run configurations, but default configurations doesn't have share checkbox:
Of course, these settings are stored in idea/.workspace, but I don't want to store to the repository all my stuff, like recent searches. Is there any solution to store default run configurations in the repository?
There is a workaround to pass common params to any project's JUnit run configuration which relies on IntelliJ IDEA's feature of picking maven surefire settings.
So it's sufficient to add common params to the main pom:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<!-- force 7-bit default encoding to ensure that nothing depends on it -->
<!-- take JFR profiling snapshot on each run -->
<argLine>-Dfile.encoding=ASCII -Xmx512M -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures -XX:+FlightRecorder -XX:StartFlightRecording=name=EcpTest,duration=999s,filename=target/ecp.jfr,settings=profile</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
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I want to put the hibernate3-maven-plugin in my parent pom and have execution skipped in child modules if a given file does not exist in that module.
Is there any way to do this?
Up to now, I have had to do this:
<plugin>
...
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
<propertyfile>target/test-classes/jdbc.properties</propertyfile>
</configuration>
</plugin>
In the parent POM, and:
<plugin>
...
<configuration>
<skip>${maven.test.skip}</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
In all child POMs where I want it to execute. I.E Those actually having a jdbc.properties file.
You may be able to do this with profiles, but I suppose you'd probably not want to run it in the parent project, which may be problematic.
Here are some links on profiles:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html
http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/profiles.html
http://mindthegab.com/2008/12/02/howto-give-your-multimodule-maven-build-subprojectenvironment-specific-behavior/
This question, had a similar issue and was not able to solve it with profiles:
activate-different-maven-profiles-depending-on-current-module
I'm not 100% on the logistics but you could possibly use the maven exec plugin in combination with a shell script. The shell script would check for the presence of the file and then invoke the mvn plugin using the maven pom directory - which can be obtained and passed to the shell script via the Maven environment variables.
If you have an existing ant file, what is the best way to convert the project to Maven. I've checked out things like fAnt, but if I'm going to mess with this stuff, I might as well go full-bore for Maven. I expected something to exist that can just start the pom.xml for me based on the existing build.xml, but I haven't found anything yet. Suggestions?
I don't know any good automated way to do such a migration because things may just be too different so I would do it manually, step by step, and keep the existing ant build in parallel of the future new one until the whole migration is done (from both technical and human points of view).
First, refactor the existing Ant build to align it on Maven conventions:
Make things modular: if your existing build is a big monolithic build producing several artifacts from a single source tree, break it down into separate modules, one for each artifact.
Update directory structure: Maven comes with a standard directory layout and, while it is possible to customize this layout (i.e. to configure plugins for another layout), this is not really recommended and is more a source of troubles than benefits. So I'd move existing app sources, configuration files, tests, etc to match Maven's layout (e.g. src/main/java for application sources, etc).
Then, start to create the Maven build:
Create POMs for each module: Create a POM, declare external libraries as Maven dependencies (maybe add them to a corporate repository, using an enterprise repository is a good practice in an enterprise context anyway), add dependencies between modules.
Finalize the multi-modules build: Add parent(s) POM(s) and inheritance/aggregating relationships. Test that there is no regression with the created artifacts.
You could do this work in a separate VCS branch if you don't want to change anything until the work is done and create scripts to move things. And when ready, merge the Maven specific stuff and apply the scripts.
You could run the Ant script from Maven with the maven-antrun-plugin. Your pom.xml would look something like this:
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-nodeps</artifactId>
<version>${ant-nodeps.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>init</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<!-- Ant code goes here -->
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</build>
</project>
That way you can start to move your dependencies into Maven, and reference them in the Ant script like so
${com.foo.bar:my-lib:jar}
Then just start slowly moving pieces of your Ant into pure Maven stuff.
Background: I'm setting up a functional tests module in a maven project. We use the maven-jetty-plugin for testing.
I've got the jetty plugin set up as described here (to play nicely with the Failsafe plugin), but what I'd like to do is deploy the war artifact from our main web module using jetty (which has just been installed into the local maven repo by the time the functional test module is running).
The jetty plugin's run-war goal has a <webApp> element which takes a string path to a war to deploy. I'd much rather specify the war to deploy using the maven coordinates defined by our web module. Is there any way to do this?
Possible workarounds:
Section 4.13 of "Better Builds with Maven" describes using cargo to deploy a war specified using maven coordinates, but that's serious overkill given that we're using jetty.
More reasonable IMO is using dependency:copy to copy the just-built-and-installed war artifact to a fixed path in the functional tests module's target directory, which I can then provide in the jetty plugin's <webApp> configuration element.
The jetty plugin's run-war goal has a element which takes a string path to a war to deploy. I'd much rather specify the war to deploy using the maven coordinates defined by our web module. Is there any way to do this?
This is not really the maven jetty plugin is supposed to be used, the plugin deploys the war of the current module, what you want to do is not supported by default.
Section 4.13 of "Better Builds with Maven" describes using cargo to deploy a war specified using maven coordinates,
Yes, Cargo can do this in a clean way.
but that's serious overkill given that we're using jetty.
I don't agree. First, the jetty plugin doesn't support what you want to do out of the box (so it may not be the right tool). Second, serious overkill is highly exaggerated, a misconception actually, especially given that cargo requires very little configuration (zero?) for an embedded Jetty.
More reasonable IMO is using dependency:copy to copy the just-built-and-installed war artifact to a fixed path in the functional tests module's target directory
No offense but your whole question sounds a bit like: I have a hammer, it was fine for a nail, can I use it for a screw given that getting a screw driver seems a serious overkill? To answer this question (which is somehow what you are saying), you can use dependency:copy and get the whole thing working with the maven jetty plugin, but this is a hack (and since you're actually not asking any question, I guess you wanted an opinion on this). Of course the final decision belongs to you :)
Just in case, here is how I would implement this with 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>
And I don't think that this can be objectively qualified as a "serious overkill".
Is there a way to trigger a maven install command from another maven install command?
In other words, I would like to be able to execute a maven install command on a maven project (in eclipse) and I want that this will automatically cause an install command on another maven project.
Is that possible?
The Maven way to "trigger" another build is to define a multi-module build. A parent pom project can specify modules, that will all be built using the standard lifecycle. So running mvn install on the parent would mean that each module is built in turn.
The parent is defined with pom packagin, and would have a modules declaration like this:
<modules>
<module>module-a</module>
<module>module-b</module>
</modules>
Alternatively it is possible to attach additional artifacts to a build so they are deployed alongside the primary artifacts (assuming they've already been packaged, you can use the build-helper-maven-plugin to attach an arbitrary file to your pom, so it will be deployed with the specified classifier. The following configuration will attach the specified file as my-artifact-1.0-extra.jar
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-artifacts</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>/path/to/extra/file.jar</file>
<type>jar</type><!--or specify your required extension-->
<classifier>extra</classifier>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
As pointed out, the maven way to launch a goal (lets say mvn install) on a set of modules is to organize them as a multi-module project and to launch the goal on the parent pom. Behind the scene, Maven will use a "Maven reactor" for this work. The reactor will calculate the build order by doing a topological sort of the nodes of the directed graph constructed by the dependency relation between modules. This graph is constructed by looking at <modules> and <dependencies> tags in poms.
But launching maven from a parent is not the only option and maven offers more possibilities to play with the reactor (e.g. making a project and its dependencies or those that depend on it):
With maven 2.0.x you have to use the reactor plugin : http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-reactor-plugin/ (see Reactor: My New Favourite Maven Plugin too)
With maven 2.1+ you can use native command line options : http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/03/maven-210-released/ (see the new build mode options -amd, -rf, -am, -pl)
Check it out, it might help you to achieve your goal.
I have a set of web apps that I manage that I am trying to move to maven.
/pom.xml // parent pom
webapp1/pom.xml // configured to point to parent
webapp2/pom.xml // peer of webapp1 and points to parent.
each of the webapps refers to the parent pom, and they both currently have a jetty maven plugin that works.
My question is how do I mount each of the webapps from the parent pom such that mvn jetty:run works in the parent directory?
edit to anwer: Pascal T
The issue is not so much that I'm getting an error when I try and run the command from the root pom, but that I'm not sure how to configure it.
for example the webapp1/pom.xml
looks like:
<project>
...
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
</project>
changing to this directory and typing mvn jetty:run works just fine and affords me the ability to hit: http://localhost:8080/webapp1.
However, what I would like would be to be in the parent of webapp1, and run all 'n' webapps from the parent directory. Thus having http://localhost:8080/webapp1, and http://localhost:8080/webapp2 available with one command line parameter.
btw, if the answer involved a tomcat plugin, that would be fine.
EDIT: I've totally edited my first answer now that I have a better understanding of the OP's expectations.
Check out Cargo, a thin wrapper that allows you to manipulate Java EE containers in a standard way.
Actually, there is a tutorial on Cargo's website that demonstrates how to use the Cargo Maven2 plugin to automatically start/stop a container (possibly deploying some deployables to it as it starts), which is what you're looking for from what I've understood.
I'm just not sure that doing this from the parent directory is feasible and if it's a requirement or if it would be ok to do it from another directory. I'll come back on this later. Lets first take a look at the Cargo Maven2 plugin setup.
In your case, you can start with the minimal configuration (that uses Jetty 5.x which is Cargo's default container):
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
If you want to use Jetty 6.x, you'll have to specify <containerId> and <type> in the <container> element:
[...]
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<container>
<containerId>jetty6x</containerId>
<type>embedded</type>
</container>
</configuration>
</plugin>
[...]
Then, add the modules you want to deploy by defining deployables explicitly inside the plugin configuration (refer to the Maven2 Plugin Reference Guide for the details of the configuration) :
<deployables>
<deployable>
<groupId>com.mycompany.myproject</groupId>
<artifactId>myproject-alpha</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<properties>
<context>optional alpha root context</context>
</properties>
</deployable>
<deployable>
<groupId>com.mycompany.myproject</groupId>
<artifactId>myproject-beta</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<properties>
<context>optional beta root context</context>
</properties>
</deployable>
[...]
</deployables>
With this, you should be able to start Jetty and have your webapps deployed on it with a simple (to run from the project containing the cargo plugin configuration):
$ mvn cargo:start
I'm just not sure that this can work with the parent pom (I wonder if this can lead to cyclic dependencies issues) and I didn't test it. But personally, I'd put all this stuff in the pom of a dedicated project, e.g. in a sibling project of your webapps, and not in the parent pom. I don't think it's a really a big deal and this is IMHO a better setup, especially if you plan to use cargo for integration testing.