------ Including Module Sources ------ John Casey ------ 05-May-2006 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html Including Module Sources * Introduction It is common practice to create an assembly using the parent POM of a multimodule build. At times, you may want to ensure that this assembly also includes the source code from one or more of the modules in this build. This example demonstrates how to include the project sources from a module in the project assembly, under the directory <<>>>. * The Assembly Descriptor First, let's write an assembly descriptor to create this assembly. For the sake of clarity, this descriptor will be as simple as possible, only demonstrating the features described by this example. +---+ src dir false org.test:child1 sources/${artifactId} +---+ This descriptor states that the assembly id should be <<>>, that the output format is a directory, and that the contents of the assembly should <> be contained within a directory named after the finalName of the top-level project. Furthermore, it states that we wish to include the source files for the module with a groupId of <<>> and an artifactId of <<>>. These sources should be contained within the directory structure <<>> for this module, since the outputDirectory expression will be interpolated on a module-by-module basis. * The POM Now, let's review the POM configuration necessary to enable the building of this assembly via the goal: +---+ 4.0.0 org.test parent 1.0 pom Parent child1 child2 child3 maven-assembly-plugin ${project.version} src/assemble/src.xml +---+ This POM simply directs the Assembly Plugin to use the <<>> assembly descriptor when executing. * Execute! To build the assembly, we issue the following command: +---+ mvn clean assembly:directory +---+ This will ensure that the output directory (normally, <<>>), is removed before building the assembly directory. * Examining the Output When the Maven execution completes, the following directory structure should be left: +---+ target/parent-1.0-src/ `-- sources `-- child1 |-- pom.xml `-- src |-- main | `-- java | `-- org | `-- test | `-- App.java `-- test `-- java `-- org `-- test `-- AppTest.java +---+