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True Multi Module Support? [message #502128]

Sun, 06 December 2009 05:13

Eclipse User

I was wondering if IAM had good multi-module support.

Specifically my questions are:
- Is there multi-module support such that each module can be its own eclipse project and dependencies are properly handled?
- Is there support for things like dependency and plugin management within the parent POM?

Re: True Multi Module Support? [message #502825 is a reply to message #502128]

Wed, 09 December 2009 15:04

Eclipse User

On 12/6/09 2:13 AM, Chad La Joie wrote:
> I was wondering if IAM had good multi-module support.
> Specifically my questions are:
> - Is there multi-module support such that each module can be its own
> eclipse project and dependencies are properly handled?

yes, that's the default approach

> - Is there support for things like dependency and plugin management
> within the parent POM?

you can import the parent pom project too and pretty much things will work.

The real issue with multimodule projects and eclipse is the lack of
support at the core for nested projects, a long time feature request in
the Eclipse community

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35973
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245412

Re: True Multi Module Support? [message #502869 is a reply to message #502825]

Thu, 10 December 2009 01:06

Eclipse User

Is there any documentation then for how do this?

I have the parent project in my workspace and then imported each child module as a project and it's definitely not working. In particular no child project seems to be able to see the parent POM so all of the settings there are completely ignored.

Re: True Multi Module Support? [message #503319 is a reply to message #502869]

Fri, 11 December 2009 15:04

Eclipse User

http://code.google.com/p/q4e/wiki/ImportingMultiprojects

but what you talk about is probably because you don't have properly
configured relativePath (by default looks in the parent dir) in your
children poms
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to- the-pom.html#Example_2

On 12/9/09 10:07 PM, Chad La Joie wrote:
> Is there any documentation then for how do this?
>
> I have the parent project in my workspace and then imported each child
> module as a project and it's definitely not working. In particular no
> child project seems to be able to see the parent POM so all of the
> settings there are completely ignored.

Re: True Multi Module Support? [message #503409 is a reply to message #503319]

Sun, 13 December 2009 01:11

Eclipse User

Thanks I got this to work. It wasn't the relative path thing. I was just using the standard filesystem import not the Maven2 importer.

Re: True Multi Module Support? [message #503410 is a reply to message #503409]

Sun, 13 December 2009 05:26

Eclipse User

thanks for your feedback, glad it worked

On 12/12/09 10:11 PM, Chad La Joie wrote:
> Thanks I got this to work. It wasn't the relative path thing. I was
> just using the standard filesystem import not the Maven2 importer.

Re: True Multi Module Support? [message #571552 is a reply to message #502825]

Thu, 10 December 2009 01:07

Eclipse User