As promised:
I wrote on 08/21/2007 03:13:21 PM:
> I'd like to thank you again for taking time to work with me on this. I
> have been asked to address a production problem for now but I will
attempt
> to post a concrete example from home this evening or no later than
> tomorrow morning (my TZ is GMT +5).
>
Consider the following directory structure
/base
/artifact1
/artifact2
/artifact3
/artifact3a
The relevant sections of /base/pom.xml look like this:
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<modules>
<module>artifact1</module>
<module>artifact2</module>
<module>artifact3</module>
</modules>
/base/artifact1/pom.xml and /base/artifact2/pom.xml are simple jars, so
you can call "mvn clean install" from either folder.
The relevant sections of /base/artifact3/pom.xml look like this:
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<modules>
<module>../artifact1</module>
<module>../artifact2</module>
<module>artifact3a</module>
</modules>
While you can do "mvn clean install" from /base/artifact3/ you will not be
allowed to do it from /base, because the reactor won't let you visit
artifact1 and artifact2 twice.
This is a very simplified example. Our build contains several dozen
artifacts with numerous dependencies similar to the above. Also, I am
willing to live with the fact that this may not be the best design and
that it may be easier to re-engineer the build, if that is your
recommendation.
Thanks again
Robert Egan
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