带有xmlbeans的Eclipse Maven多模块项目

Question

I have a multi module project, in which one of the module ( say MODULE-A) generates sources and classes using xmlbeans plugin. So everytime when I do a clean install of parent project, eclipse recognizes all of the generated sources as new classes, and I don't want to commit the same files again and again when there is no schema change. To overcome this problem, I wrapped xmlbeans build under a profile so that I can build it with profile whenever there is a schema change. But it didn't solve the problem completely.

Whenever I try to do clean build of parent, MODULE-A is not creating 'schemaorg_apache_xmlbeans' under build directory ( which is something only generated by xmlbean plugin when I run with profile ). I can tell maven to exclude 'schemaorg_apache_xmlbeans' from the clean task. But I want to know if this is the right way to handle.

Appreciate your responses.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

One alternative to this approach is to add this plugin:

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <id>add-source</id>
                  <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                  <goals>
                     <goal>add-source</goal>
                  </goals>
                  <configuration>
                     <sources>
                        <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/</source>
                     </sources>
                  </configuration>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>

This will allow the generated-sources to be added as a source folder so every time it generates you will have them built and available. You wouldn't commit these but when the actual jar gets built/released they will be in there and work all the same. This allows you to always be using code most up to date with your schema. This may not be the best solution for you but I found it to be a good idea when I ran into a similar situation.