Maven build multiple projects without inheriting 2016-12-25 22:48
If you build root maven project the children project will be built automatically. In this page I will show you how to build multiple maven projects without inheriting. Let's say you have multiple maven projects like following.
├─apache-common-lang3
│ ├─src
│ ├─target
│ └─pom.xml
├─apache-common-io
│ ├─src
│ ├─target
│ └─pom.xml
Create another maven project let's say "build-all". The pom of this project is like following.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<parent>
<artifactId>use-wheel</artifactId>
<groupId>com.henryxi.use.wheel</groupId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>apache-maven</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging><!--change the type of packageing to pom -->
<modules>
<module>../apache-common-lang3</module><!--relative path to the project you want build -->
<module>../apache-common-io</module>
</modules>
</project>
Change the packaging to pom and add modules node. The content of child module node is the relative path to the project you want build. When you build build-all project with maven commend mvn clean install it will help you build both apache-common-lang3 and apache-common-io.