I'm trying to design a multi-module project to do a variety of steps that I currently do in my existing Ant build system, and was previously given some advice to setup one module to create the standard jar artifact, and then create another module (which has a dependency on the jar module) to create the obfuscated jar.
Being new to Maven, I can't see how to do this. In theory I will want the project-ofuscated-jar to access (and unpackage?) the project-jar's freshly created jar file and then obfuscate the classes using antrun or a custom plugin. I'm hoping someone can shed some light on how this is actually done. I can't find any documentation on multi-modules that explains the relationship between modules in the context that I need. Here are my questions: 1) I assume that by M2 design, project-obfuscated-jar should not directly access the classes/ in project-jar. Instead it should access the project-jar JAR artifact. Is this correct? 2) Would project-jar's jar artifact first need to be deployed to the repository before the project-obfuscated-jar can access it? 3) Assume that project-obfuscated-jar uses antrun to feed the classes produced by project-jar into the obfuscator. How do I directly reference project-jar's JAR file? 4) Is it bad practice to reference peer projects/modules using "../.." type references? 5) Is there any documentation/references on multi-modules outside of the typical use cases where a multi-module project is just a set of projects each with their own source tree? I feel I am trying to apply the multi-module functionality to a more specialized use case that is certainly within the capabilities of Maven, but it's not typical and the documentation hasn't expanded beyond the mainstream use cases yet. Thank you for your help DaveC
