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POMaven practice - shared source: install artifact locally, or create shared source sibling project?
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copied!<p>I've got 3 modules (A, B, C) and a parent (P) with several inter-related dependencies. </p> <p>Note that none of these projects package as JARs by default.</p> <p>A needs to package B and C and thus has a dependency declared on them of type 'compile' (and that's fine). </p> <p>B requires (at compile time) some of the source that lives within C. My question is really regarding how this is best accomplished.</p> <p>I see two options:</p> <p>Option 1) Create a 4th project, D, that holds the shared source and packages as a JAR, and declare a dependency in B on D of type 'provided', so that the source is available at compile time but is not packaged. </p> <p>Create a dependency in C on D, with a type of compile, such that the source is included in D. This replicates in the resultant artifacts the same structure/includes that the original project set up would have had. </p> <p>However it means splitting up the source and having an extra (somewhat superfluous for my particular purposes) module. </p> <p>Option 2) Using the maven install plugin and the install lifecycle phase, have C install into the local repository as a JAR and declare a dependency in B on C's JAR - so that the source is pulled out of the local repository and not from a sibling module.</p> <p>I don't mind in this case that B would get access to extra source from C that it might not need. </p> <p>Option 3) ??</p> <p>I'm pretty new to Maven so i'm not sure on the feasability of option 2 or even if it'd be good practice (can you install something that's packaged as a WAR locally as a JAR?). Would this method break from convention, or is there a better way?</p> <p>My other concern is that this would mean that you'd have to call 'maven install' from P, as 'maven package' would not install the dependency and so the build would fail. </p> <p>Any guidance on this would be great</p> <p>Thanks</p>

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