Maven build with multiple exec plugin executions, ant tasks - maven-3

I have to perform following steps in my maven build, in the specific order mentioned below:
exec-maven-plugin
maven-antrun-plugin
exec-maven-plugin
maven-antrun-plugin
maven-remote-resources-plugin, jaxb2-maven-plugin
maven-javadoc-plugin
exec-maven-plugin
I have to use JDK 6, so using Maven 3.2.1.
In the pom file, I have defined 5 different profiles for #1, #2, #3, #4, #7 above (profile ids: p1, p2, p3, p4, p5).
I am building my project using multiple commands:
mvn exec:exec -Dp1 (for #1 above)
mvn antrun:run -Dp2 exec:exec -Dp3 (for #2 and #3 above)
mvn antrun:run -Dp4 (for #4 above)
mvn clean install (for #5, #6 above and compile classes)
mvn exec:exec -Dp5 (for #7 above)
The build works okay with multiple commands, but is it possible to execute all steps using one command i.e. mvn clean install ?
What I understand is, it is not possible to have multiple executions of exec-maven-plugin in non consecutive order, hence I used profiles and then execute each step using the profile id. Reference:
Maven maven-exec-plugin multiple execution configurations

What I understand is, it is not possible to have multiple executions of exec-maven-plugin in non consecutive order, hence I used profiles and then execute each step using the profile id.
The “profile trick” mentioned elsewhere is only needed when performing explicit goal invocation from the command line.
From what I gather, however, you would rather have your goals executed as part of a normal mvn clean install. In that case, you are in luck: Simply bind each goal to an appropriate phase in the default lifecycle. Depending on what your steps do, you may, e.g., bind the first <execution> of exec:exec (step 1) to the generate-sources phase. If the first <execution> of antrun:antrun (step 2) is then bound to, say, the process-sources phase, it will be called after step 1 as executes the goals bound to all phases up to install.
Building a project like this with a single mvn install is what Maven was designed to do; having to call mvn five times to build one project is definitely not the Maven Way.
That being said, you may run out of phases if all your steps logically belong to, say, the package phase. In that case, the steps are executed in the order in which their <execution> elements are listed in the pom.xml.

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Maven inheritance does not work when invoking plugin goals from command line

I have a multi module project. There is a parent pom in which I have added the maven-dependency plugin to the plugin management section. I have not tied this plugin's execution to a phase. In one of the child modules pom.xml, I have added this same plugin with different configuration.
However when I execute from the command line
mvn dependency:copy
Then only my parent pom plugin configuration executes for the maven-dependency plugin and all the child modules are skipped. Why is this? Does inheritance work only if plugins are tied to a specific phase?
The simple answer to this is: If you try to run maven via command like you did you are calling a plugin but you will not run the life cyclce which is needed to get the inheritance mechanism take care of the pom files. In your examples if you would start the life cylce with something like:
mvn package
or something similar like:
mvn verify
all your sub modules would be visited during the life cyclce.

Pass a dynamic parameter in Jenkins build

I want to pass a dynamic parameter in Jenkins in a scheduled job (this build runs every day at 3:00 am)
This works if I executed it in my linux command line:
mvn package -DintegrationTag=$(date +%d-%m-%y)
or
mvn package -DintegrationTag="$(date +%d-%m-%y)"
or
mvn package -DintegrationTag="$(date +"%d-%m-%y")"
with these 3 options this is what is executed, for example (this is what I want to do in Jenkins):
mvn package -DintegrationTag=16-09-2013
but any of these sentences, do not work in my Jenkins goals and options (because the dynamic parameter).
Is there any way to do it?
The solution:
Content of the file which constains the script:
echo "NOW=`date +%d-%m-%y`"> env.properties
Path of the properties file:
env.properties
In project, goals and options:
clean test package -DintegrationTag=$NOW
Inject environment variables to the build process = true
In a Build "execute shell" section add this
NOW=`date +%d-%m-%y`
mvn package -DintegrationTag=$NOW
Another option can be to execute a top level maven target in jenkins.
The first two steps of injecting the required variable value into the build environment remains same as the answer given by #Iker below.
In the third step, give goal as
clean test packageand then in Properties section within the 'Advanced' tab, giveintegrationTag=$<your variable name>
Note that this solution is useful when one creates a free style project in jenkins. For maven 2/3 projects,solution by #Iker is good:)

How to execute package for one submodule only on Jenkins?

I have a sbt project with 4 modules: module-a, module-b, module-c, module-d.
Each module can be packaged as a WAR. I want to set up a deployment on Jenkins that would build only one of the 4 modules and deploy it to a container.
In detail, I want to have 4 Jenkins jobs - job-a, job-b, job-c, job-d, each building only the defined module (a to d).
For now, I am using clean update test package as the command for the Jenkins sbt build, but this results in packaging all 4 modules that is not necessary.
I already tried project -module-a clean update test package but with no luck.
You may also like to execute project-scoped clean and test tasks as follows:
sbt module-a/clean module-a/test
The solution is slightly shorter and clearer as to what project the following commands apply to.
You don't need to execute update task since it's implicitly executed by test as described in inspect tree test.
There's a way to make it cleaner with an alias. Use the following in the build.sbt:
addCommandAlias("jenkinsJob4ModuleA", "; module-a/clean; module-a/test")
With the alias, execute jenkinsJob4ModuleA to have the same effect as the above solution.
Quote the argument to project, i.e. project module-a, and don't use a dash before the name of the submodule.
The entire command line for the Jenkins job would than be as follows:
./sbt "project module-a" clean update test

How do I make the compile of one maven 3 project depend on the install of another?

I have a directory with a pom.xml and several subdirectories with their own pom.xml files
One subdirectory is local called thirdparty. It contains several jar files and installs them to the local maven repo when a mvn install is executed. These are needed by the mvn compile phase of the other artifacts. The root pom.xml simply executes the same step on each child pom.xml.
I'd like to modify the root pom.xml so that mvn compile will do an install on the third party folder before executing the other folders. I tried this in the maven-compiler-plugin:
<executions>
<execution>
<id>thirdparty</id>
<phase>install</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
I see nothing in the documentation about specifying a phase in a dependency element.
To make sure I have this straight, it sounds like you have an aggregator pom, AGG, and some submodules, A and B, where A is nothing but some third-party jars that have to be installed in the local repo before B will compile. If that's true, then two possibilities spring to mind:
1) Do away with A and instead install the third party jars into an appropriate standalone repo, like a local Nexus server, and add that repo to your pom. That would be the "Maven" way of doing it.
2) Add a dependency on A to B's <dependencies>. In A, configure the install plugin with an execution per jar that needs to be installed, and bind these executions to the compile phase. Then when you run compile on AGG, it will first run compile on A, which will install all the jars, followed by compile on B. Note that this will have the side effect of producing an A.jar, which will be a dependency of B, because maven assumes that every module produces exactly one artifact of some type. You might be forced to add at least one class or resource so that A.jar can actually be built. Not sure about that one. Alternately, you could experiment with setting A's packaging to "pom".
I believe you are using Maven in a wrong way.
Such kind of 3rd party dependencies should be put to local repository (or your internal Maven repository) before you run the compilation work, and dependencies in your project should be setup accordingly. "Installation of 3rd party artifacts" shouldn't be part of the build process.
And, in Maven world, we rarely have 3rd party libs exists as part of the source code. In fact one of the reason for using Maven is to get rid of such kind of libs in source code.
Sounds like you want a couple of dependancies. Look into the depends element.

How to skip building of the pom in multi-module project

I'm trying to optimize my build process (in development) in term of time to build the whole tree of maven multi-module project. Some of the POM are actually aggregation of sources/libraries that rarelly (and typically) never change. So specific sub-questions are
Is it possible to somehow configure maven to not build pom if there are no changes in sources specified in POM:project/build/sourceDirectory attribute?
Or is it possible to (at least) conditionally disable maven-bundle-plugin? - it takes most of the time.
Google could not find anything relevant Q#1. Typical solution does not work for #2 - when i try to specify 'executions' for maven-bundle-plugin (like this)
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-bundle-plugin.version}</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>osgi-bundle</id>
<phase>bundle</phase>
<goals>
<goal>bundle</goal>
</goals>
i receive this error in output
[bundle:bundle]
Bundle artifact-id:bundle-id:bundle:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT : The JAR is empty: dot
Error(s) found in bundle configuration
Any help is appreciated. I'm aware about following:
* Disable a Maven plugin defined in a parent POM
(maven-bundle-plugin can't work with 'executions' tag)
* Skip execution of a maven plugin if a file does not exist (maven-bundle-plugin does not have skip confiuration option)
* How to skip lifecycle phase in multi maven module (the same as previous)
* If entire maven-bundle-plugin is moved into profile, maven does not recognize packaging=bundle.
Finally I have to admit that (C) Eugene Kuleshov - "Maven generally don't track sources/changes, so it is always a full build."
But, returning back to Java after 5+ on .NET and 5+ years erlier on C++, it looks weird for me that such a common feature like incremental build is not support by widely used tool having a history of 10+ years. So I could not spend my time on waiting to rebuild each and every unchanged module in my multi-module project and decided to make customized version of Maven 3.0.4 :)
Feel free to grab it here http://code.google.com/p/maven-onchange-activator/, try and report issues.
Maven generally don't track sources/changes, so it is always a full build. However to disable any plugin you could move it into profile and then enable/disable the whole profile, e.g. either conditionally or from the command line.
You should check things like
mvn -am
in relationship with
mvn -pl ...
so doing a build like:
mvn -am -pl SubModule clean package
will build only those modules which have been changed and which needed to be built as a result of a dependency to the change module.
I would suggest switching to Gradle.
Gradle has such support out of the box (no configuration needed) and conversion from Maven should be easy.

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