strategy for maven ear packaging, building dependant projects

Question

After looking at various suggestions, I still can't seem to have any successful maven strategy for ear files.

I have this structure:

parent pom.xml: ...

  <modules>
        <module>MyProject-ear</module>
        <module>MyProject-ejb</module>
        <module>MyProject-war</module>
  </modules>

(ejb/war/ear have this as parent)

I'm using maven-war-plugin / maven-ejb-plugin / maven-ear-plugin.

EAR module has the ejb/war projects as dependencies.

Now, if I want to build my ear, I need to build the war first. If I don't, it's just not the latest version.

Is there a better way?

EDIT: FYI, opened a netbeans bug to have a working solution to run my project just by clicking "run": http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218807

Answer 1

That looks fine. I use the same layout myself.

When building you just have to be positioned at the top pom and run mvn install . You don't have to go down the hierarchy and build the war first.