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Re: [m2e-users] Why does Maven along with m2eclipse successfully build a project with compile errors?
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If you have Automatic build turned on, eclipse/jdt will compile any java
class right after u save the file... and it will produce a .class file
even for .java files with errors. That explains why the .class file is
newer than the .java file.
As Igor said, that's how eclipse/JDT works.
Vlad
On 3/8/2011 11:42 AM, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) wrote:
I have a project that I got initially working with an Ant build, and
then I converted it to build with Maven. I had a JAXB plugin project
and the app project. When converting to Maven, I converted it all to a
"build" aggregator project, an "ear" project, a "war" project, and the
JAXB plugin project. I build the application with "mvn install" in the
"build" project. I've been developing with this process for a few weeks
now. I edit the code in Eclipse, using the m2eclipse plugin.
What I only just noticed this morning is that if I have a compile error
in my project, running "mvn install" doesn't complain at all. It
apparently successfully builds everything. If I instead first do a "mvn
clean", and then "mvn install", it correctly fails on the compile
errors.
After the build that succeeded but should have failed, I looked back in
the Maven build output, and I noted this:
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @
myapp-war ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
So even though I had changed the file (deliberately creating a compile
error, which Eclipse told me about), it thought the classes were up to
date.
So, I then fixed the file again in Eclipse and did a "mvn install" from
the command line. I then used an external text editor to make the same
error in the same file, and then I did another "mvn install" from the
command line. This correctly failed with the compile error.
So, it seems like m2eclipse is doing something unexpected here.
So, my next experiment was to fix the compile error and then from the
shell look at the last modified time of the ".java" and ".class" files.
They matched.
I then waited a minute and then remade the compile error in the file and
then looked at the last modified times again. They matched. The last
modified time on the ".class" file was updated to match the time of the
".java" file. The one with a compile error in it, which couldn't have
compiled to a class file.
So it's clear that doing "mvn install" didn't fail when there were
compile errors because the ".java" file wasn't newer than the ".class"
file, so it didn't attempt to compile anything.
Is this behavior something unique to m2eclipse, or is there something
else going on here?
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