Month: August 2015

I recently need to be able to publish two artifacts from one maven module within a multi module build. I fumbled around for a while looking for the best way to handle this. The key was defining the classifier under configuration.

Maven pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
    <parent>
        <groupId>net.kyleryan</groupId>
        <artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
 
    <artifactId>implementation</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
    <name>GSSMFrameworkV2</name>
 
    <dependencies>        
        <!-- dependencies -->
    </dependencies>
 
    <build>
        <!-- Define the classes that will make up the client jar -->
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.2</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>client</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>jar</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <classifier>client</classifier>
                            <includes>
                                <include>net/kyleryan/exception/FrameworkExceptionHandler.class</include>
                                <include>net/kyleryan/exception/UserException.class</include>
                                <include>net/gm/gssm/framework/ui/controller/MyController.class</include>
                                <include>net/gm/gssm/framework/ui/handler/MyHandler.class</include>
                            </includes>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
 
</project>

Referencing the client jar in another module looks like this.

Dependency Example

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.kyleryan</groupId>
    <artifactId>implementation</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <classifier>client</classifier>
</dependency>