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Martin Kanters commented on MNG-6118:
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After a long discussion with [~rfscholte] and [~mthmulders] we decided that
solving this issue in one Maven invocation is quite difficult without adding a
flag like --also-make-phase.
Ideally you would like to run `mvn jetty:run -f webapp/pom.xml` and then Maven
would figure out and compile the needed submodules (but not run jetty:run on
the submodules). It's pretty hard currently to figure out the requirements on
the submodules (which is not always compile).
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We decided that as a first step it would already improve this use-case if the
build could resolve inter-module dependencies when using -f <subproject> or
when navigating into a <subproject>. This ensures that we do not first have to
install the whole multi module project root first, before running jetty:run on
the webapp submodule.
[The proposed fix|https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/373] allows us to run:
mvn compile && mvn jetty:run -f webapp.
> Add option to execute goals on a specific module while building a multimodule
> project
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> Key: MNG-6118
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6118
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Command Line, Plugins and Lifecycle
> Reporter: Robert Scholte
> Priority: Major
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> Suppose we have a multimodule which results in a war. In the end we want to
> run this war in a container like jetty. Up until now the {{jetty:run}} is
> executed on every module, which doesn't make sense for the other modules.
> This is just one of several examples where you want to control on which
> module to execute a specific goal. In case of wars, the plugin could check
> for the packaging type, but in case of jars this won't work.
> There should be a generic solution to mark goals for a specific module.
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