I am new to eclipse and programming , so probably a silly question.
According to me build just makes jar file but maven install deploys it to local repo thats m2 .
Also there are two options for build ->maven build and-> maven build..
Could u explain me the explain mw the difference between two.
maven build... lets you specify goal and various other build parameter (build profile, offline, update snapshot, other build parameter etc..)
maven build is a pre-defined goal that eclipse maven plugin wraps under,
You could see the first couple line of output for both of the case
Build - Maven phase - compile and prepare ready to distribute package - eg. JAR
Build... - opens eclipse wizzard where you can customize the build
Install - Maven phase - do the same as with Build and install to local artifact (product of Build phase) to local or remote repository. This will allow to use that project as dependency in other projects.
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When i save changes in my java source code with Eclipse i notice in the Progress tab
As i am using Maven which phase or plugin (goal) is being invoked here ?
What happens behind the scene ?
simply it updates maven dependencies based on your pom.xml or resolves Maven dependencies from the Eclipse workspace without installing to the local Maven repository.
visit this site to know about that in detail https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.0.1/maven-core/apidocs/org/apache/maven/project/ProjectBuilder.html
Any change to the source code or pom file of the project signal eclipse to rebuild (if build automatically is enabled). However, maven builds, would check for the required artefacts from the remote repository and download them to local repository (under .maven dir) before running compile phase. Maven plugin can be configured to run offline in which when remote repository will not be queried - making the build execute faster.
I'm working in eclipse on a java / javascript project, we're using maven to manage our project dependencies, I ran into a issue with maven build (clean install) does not install the dependencies that I specified in the POM.xml file, I tried everything I can find on the internet the whole day today, still no luck, I'll be really appreciate if anyone could kindly take a look at, thank you :)
I got a reuse lib project (lib) and a working project (project), the project should be installing the lib during the maven build, So, here's more detail information on what exactly I did:
I ran maven clean on the lib, then ran maven package, the lib-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file was generated successfully.
then in the working project POM.xml file, I added the dependency declaration.
I right clicked the working project, maven -> update maven project, where I checked the 'force update of snapshots / releases' checkbox, then -> ok
I right clicked the working project, run as -> maven build (with clean install, and also I checked on the 'Update Snapshots' checkbox) -> apply -> run
In the console, I saw the reuse lib was downloading and then downloaded, but it's never got installed (there should be a line says installing reuse lib...), as the result of it, the reuse lib will not be loaded after I ran my working project, it drives me insane -_-!..
Only your maven projects build output can be installed (in the local repository with mvn install, resp. mvn clean install). During the build it will resolve the dependencies (and the transitive dependencies) to be downloaded and packed to your delivery. Those dependencies of your project will implicitly also be "installed" in your local repository since you will see them in your local repository after the download happened - Maven will however not see that as a install in the meaning of install of the default lifecycle.
To install your "reuse lib"-Maven project you will have to run mvn install or mvn clean install on that project's pom rather than on a project which "just uses it as dependency".
I'm converting an existing Eclipse-based web project to a Maven-managed one.
Since the project has lots of dependencies, many of which are custom (they're either internally made or they've been taken from sources that have no public repository), is there some 'magic' Maven POM setting that will let me load every jar from WebContent/WEB-INF/lib and make the project work as before right now, so that I can configure each dependency and do the necessary refactoring to turn it to a proper Maven project with a little more time and care?
I have already seen this question, but the project must continue to compile inside Eclipse, so - or at least I guess - it is not just a matter of using the Maven war plugin
What you want to do is called "installing" your non-mavenized JARs into your maven repository. This can be a local or remote repo that you host.
The command to install to your local repo is something like this: mvn install:install-file -Dfile=My-lib.jar -DgroupId=com.mycompany -DartifactId=My-lib -Dversion=1.2.3 -Dpackaging=jar
You'll want to review the various options for install to suit your project.
Once the non-mavenized dependencies are installed to your repo you can add them to your pom like any other maven dependency. They will be fetched from your local repo.
You will have to set up your own remote repo (like Artifactory) or install each plugin for every developer and CI server in your environment for others on your team to build the project. I strongly reccomend Artifactory, it makes it easy on your and your team to use maven and get dependencies.
I'm new to Maven and m2e. It frustrates me that I have to ask this question, but the sparse m2e documentation and Google are failing me.
How do get m2e to build a JAR? I understand that this should happen during the maven package phase, but m2e doesn't seem to do this as part of the build process and I can't find a way to explicitly execute the package phase in Eclipse (nor any other phases that aren't part of the default build).
Thanks.
As long as you have your POM.xml file with the following parameters:
<modelVersion>[a model number eg 4.0.0]</modelVersion>
<groupId>[a group id eg com.myapp]</groupId>
<artifactId>[a unique artifact id within your packages eg myapp]</artifactId>
<version>[the version number eg 1.0-SNAPSHOT]</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>[the name eg myapp]</name>
then you just need to run maven build with the goals clean install to create a jar file from your project. You can run maven build by right clinking on the project and going to run > maven build ...
The jar will be created in [project dir]/target
Although "Run As maven install" would do the trick, it can be good
to know that m2e will perform the equivalent of the package phase when doing "Export... Jar/War/EAR file". It seems to understand the plugin configurations too, at least a little bit, and at least for EARs...
As it will resolve artifacts using projects and the m2 repository,
it will also work for "unrelated" modules, as the dependency that resolves to a project is good enough for eclipse to package.
(That is, you don't have to install the unrelated dependency separately, it will be built automatically from the eclipse project.)
I'm not sure I would deploy anything it builds though :-)
If I have 6 modules in my project is it possible to build only one out of six ? without commenting out others ?
EDIT
Submodule will not work itselft because or parent tags. I need to install the parent first to make it build. how can I do it without installing parent
is it possible to build only one out of six ? without commenting out others ?
My understanding is that you want to launch maven from the aggregating project (i.e. a reactor build) but only build one module. This is possible using the -pl, --projects project list option (see advanced reactor options):
mvn --projects my-submodule install
This is a very powerful option, especially when combined with --aslo-make (to also build the projects on which the listed modules depend) or the --also-make-dependents (to also build the projects that depends on the listed modules). On the basis of your update, you might want this actually:
mvn --projects my-submodule --also-make install
Launching Maven from the directory of the module you want to build is of course an option but this won't allow you to do the things mentioned above nor to build a subset of all modules. For such use cases, the advanced reactor options are the way to go.
Opening a command shell, navigating to the submodule directory and executing mvn install (or whatever your preferred lifecycle is) should do the trick.
You can simply build the module by going in this module directory and run the mvn clean install.
However, note that with this method, the dependencies with the others modules will be taken from your local repository (or the entreprise repository).
Let's take a simple example:
project
+ commons
+ business
Now, imagine that you build, on the root directory the whole project, using the mvn clean install command. Consider that all your modules are in version 1.0.
Now, you move to version 1.1. If you run the mvn clean install on the business project only, it will try to get the 1.1 of module commons. You will then have an error, as Maven will not find any version 1.1 in your local repository.
Within Eclipse, assuming you have m2eclipse installed: Right-click on the module in question and choose Run As -> Maven package.