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Question

I'm currently building a java utility library which can be use as maven dependency.

At the moment to simulate how the user use it, I need to create another project in intellij and put the dependency in the pom.xml

Does anyone know if there's any other way to test dependency without creating another project outside? I would like to keep all the tests in the same project.

Thank you.

Answer 1

With maven and IntelliJ Idea you can create a project containing several modules. To achieve this, create a simple maven project and add following to its pom file:

<packaging>pom</packaging>

Then right-click on the root of your project tree and select New > Module > Maven. This will create a nested module. For your case you can create the main and the test modules and use them as dependencies for each other.