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Apache Maven Cookbook

Apache Maven Cookbook

By : Raghuram Bharathan
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Apache Maven Cookbook

Apache Maven Cookbook

4.2 (5)
By: Raghuram Bharathan

Overview of this book

If you are a Java developer or a manager who has experience with Apache Maven and want to extend your knowledge, then this is the ideal book for you. Apache Maven Cookbook is for those who want to learn how Apache Maven can be used for build automation. It is also meant for those familiar with Apache Maven, but want to understand the finer nuances of Maven and solve specific problems.
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Combining inheritance and aggregation


By using the project inheritance feature of Maven, we can share common build attributes such as properties and dependencies across all children. We can also aggregate modules and build them together.

When project inheritance is used, the parent is not aware of the child. In the case of project aggregation, each module is not aware of the aggregation.

We will now see how to combine and get the benefits of both.

How to do it...

  1. Open a multi-module project; in our case, simple-multi-module. This has a subfolder child, which is the module that is aggregated by the parent project.

  2. Update the parent pom as follows:

        <groupId>com.packt.cookbook</groupId>
        <artifactId>simple-multi-module</artifactId>
        <packaging>pom</packaging>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  3. Add the module section and specify the child:

       <modules>
          <module>child</module>
  4. Update the child pom to specify the parent...

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