[MECLIPSE-598] Generate .project and .classpath in parent for Multi-artifacts sharing the same source files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: Core : Multi-projects
• Environment: mvn 2.2.1; Java 1.6.0_16
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jean-Paul GUIGUI
• Created: 20/Aug/09 06:06
• Updated: 25/Nov/14 14:29
• Resolved: 25/Nov/14 14:29

Description

I need to generate multi-artifacts sharing the same source files.

For this I have a multi-module project:

myproject
 |-module1
 |  |--pom.xml
 |-module2
 |  |-pom.xml
 |-src/main/java
 |-pom.xml

The pom.xml of module1 and module2 are pointing to the source in the parent directory:

<sourceDirectory>../src/main/java</sourceDirectory>

The parent pom as a packaging "pom". The only difference between the pom of module1 and module2 is the dependencies used,

I want to import the source in Eclipse (one only of the sub-project is enough since both are identical). For this I'm putting skip=true into the pom.xml of the module2 not to generate the Eclipse project. And in the pom.xml of module1, I'm trying to force maven-eclipse to generate the .project, .classpath into the parent module

2 issues:

• not possible to specify where to generate the Eclipse file. The eclipseProjectDir doesn't work in this case
• the path src generated are absolute instead of relative

In EclipsePlugin.java there is :

   private boolean validate() {
....
        if ( !eclipseProjectDir.equals( executedProject.getFile().getParentFile() ) )
        {
            if ( !eclipseProjectDir.isDirectory() )
            {
                throw new MojoExecutionException( Messages.getString( "EclipsePlugin.notadir", eclipseProjectDir ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$
            }
            eclipseProjectDir = new File( eclipseProjectDir, executedProject.getArtifactId() );
            if ( !eclipseProjectDir.isDirectory() && !eclipseProjectDir.mkdirs() )
            {
                throw new MojoExecutionException( Messages.getString( "EclipsePlugin.cantcreatedir", eclipseProjectDir ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$
            }
        }

Specifying eclipseProjectDir=".." to generate the .classpath and .project in the parent doesn't work. The artifactId is added. Need an other parameter to do it