Hello all
Currently, the default directory for source code in Maven 4 is:
src/${scope}/${lang}
Where ${scope} is "main" or "test" and ${lang} is "java" or "resources".
However, in the case of a multi-modules JPMS projects, we need to add
the module name somewhere. Notes:
* This change applies only to multi-modules projects. Non-modular
projects, or modular projects with only one module, will see no change.
* The output directory of a multi-modules project also changes: it
becomes target/classes/${module} where ${module} is inserted by
javac itself. So the addition of a ${module} directory is an
invention of this proposal.
Three proposals have been discussed on the pull request #2278:
1. src/${module}/${scope}/${lang}
2. src/${lang}/${module}/${scope}
3. src/${scope}/${lang}/${module}
Proposals 1 and 3 are the same as the current Maven convention with only
${module} added either at the beginning or at the end. Proposal 2 is
more disruptive, but produces the most compact directory trees and takes
in account the fact that each language has its own concept of modules
with its own naming conventions. Proposals 1 and 3 are more
conservative, with proposal 1 seing modules as a kind of sub-projects
(files related to the same module are kept together) and proposal 3
rather seing the module system as an extension of the package system.
These 3 proposals are described in more details there, together with
examples:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Default+directory+for+modular+projects
What peoples think that the default should be?
Martin
