maven

maven

• to display all the targets:
  mvn -g > toto.txt
  
• List of targets are in project.xml, see "build" target
  
• "dist:" postgoals are described in maven.xml
  
• To add a jar like mysql, you need to add it to project.properties and project.xml
• Maven plugin for eclipse:
• http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases

To create an exe from Eclipse

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574594/how-can-i-create-an-executable-jar-with-dependencies-using-maven Note: use Maven/asembly and not Maven/Packaging

Maven System Properties

mvn assembly:assembly -Dmaven.test.skip=true   (doesn't build tests)

mvn assembly:assembly -DskipTests=true   (doesn't do tests, but build them)

 
• New Maven project for Eclipse 

1. from the command line:

 mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.yourcompany.engine.api -DartifactId=EngineApi -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

2. cd EngineApi
3. mvn install
4. mvn eclipse:eclipse
5. Import the project into Eclipse as a maven project
6. Right click on the Eclipse project: "Maven / Enable Dependencies Management" then "Maven / Update Project Configuration"

• Maven/Eclipse problem
1. Right-click on your project, select Maven -> Remove Maven Nature.
2. Open you terminal, go to your project folder and do mvn eclipse:clean
3. Right click on your Project and select “Configure -> Convert into Maven Project”

• Create a pom compatible entry to be used as a dependency from a local jar file

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.winterwell -DartifactId=jtwitter -Dversion=2.8.2 -Dfile=/home/lee/tools/JTwitter/jtwitter.jar -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true

• if you lost or removed the /target folder
• mvn compile
• or
• mvn package  (creates also the package...)