On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:25, John Casey wrote:
> <2cents>
> One easy way to get around this duality between single-source and
> multiple source directories would be to stage out the java sources to
> some temporary location under ${basedir}/target for subsequent
> generation (back into that same directory) prior to java:compile
> execution. Then, these generation tools would look in the
> ${basedir}/target/staged-source directory for their input, and would
> output to the same directory...maybe all in a preGoal of java:compile or
> something...
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> </2cents>

Do you think that could be a standard? Something we could add to the
POM? I think it might be useful ...

<build>
  <generateSourcesDirectory/>
</build>

Something all the tools like Antlr, JavaCC, XDoclet, etc. could use.

> -john
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> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 14:32, Michal Maczka wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:43 AM
> > > To: 'Maven Users List'
> > > Subject: Mutliple source directories in project.xml
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> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I've seen that there has been a discussion regarding this before
> > > (at least
> > > on the mailing list).
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> > > I gather one can circumvent this by modifying the appropriate
> > > property/variable in a preGoal
> > > (like maven.compile.src.set), but that would add to the maintenance
> > > workload and really
> > > it'd just be a hack.
> > >
> > > So my question is; will support for multiple source directories
> > > in the POM
> > > ever be incuded, or
> > > is it absolutely out of the question?
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> > Chances for that are very low!
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> > [off topic]
> > In reality there is quite often more than one java source directory.
> > Recently I have a "pleasure" to work with a few tools which are generating
> > java code (e.g. javacc).
> > I can perfectly understand the frustration of people trying to do the same
> > thing and knowing maven worst then me.
> > 
> > Even if generated source become visible for java compiler plugin, javadoc
> > plugin is not seeing them.
> > ( it uses <ant:fileset dir="${pom.build.sourceDirectory}">)
> > 
> > I think we can do and we should do something to make those things simpler.
> > 
> > Most of plugins which are generating java source like antlr, xdoclet,
> > hibernate are changing ant classpath which is processed by java:compile
> > goal.
> > I think that this strategy is not perfect as it's breaks encapsulation of
> > plugins and exposes their implementation details.
> > Such process should be based on some simple contracts which give a freedom
> > how plugins are implemented (e.g. ant should not be necessary for
> > javac:compile goal)
> > The solution could be very simple: every "source generator" can put its
> > files into the well known place
> > (e.g. target/generated/java ). then javac, javadoc and whatever else can do
> > simple check if such directory exists and behave appropriately.
> > 
> > Generally every tool is placing its files in almost random place in "target"
> > directory. It will be nice to changes this "black hole" into something more
> > structured.
> > 
> > For example repository plugin is supporting only jars at the moment. I know
> > it's brand new but it's very painful to make it more generic (if at all
> > possible)
> > I imagine that in future it should be possible to (that is what repository
> > plugin will need)
> > 
> > a) build a main project artifact (consulting) <type> property of POM
> > b) know where it was stored (no artifact should be put to local repository
> > during process).
> > At the moment this is quite painful even for such basic use case.
> > 
> > For that we can probably mimic the layout of local repository per project.
> > And there is so many other places where standardization will make many
> > things simpler.
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