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how to run only specific maven module from maven eclipse project.
I have few modules in my EAR maven project and when I build whole project it fails at one module WAR,saying this war artifact module not found in repository.

Your multi module project must e having a common parent. First install that parent pom in your local repository. Now go to child module project and maven build the project.
It should work given that all its dependencies are present.

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Jenkins only sees one of my maven modules in maven multimodule build job

I have several modules that I build in a maven multi module project. I can call maven on the head pom.xml in the parent directory and build all modules. However, Jenkins only builds the first module of several svn repos I have configured by calling mvn -f <first child module it sees>, and never builds the other child modules. I tried creating a new Jenkins project, but the same problem occurs.
In the Advanced section of the maven configuration block, are you definitely pointing at the parent pom? Jenkins only executes maven once, against the pom specified in this section.

Create a maven project with parent's packaging war

I want to create a Maven project. I want it to have a parent project. The problem is that the parent project has a package in: war.
I see an error :
Invalid packaging for parent POM must be "pom" but is "war"
What should I do ?
A parent project (packaging with type pom) is by definition a container of submodules. Only the submodules are allowed to be of specific packaging types (like war or jar). You use a parent project to aggregate common dependencies and build configurations.
I suggest that you put the code you want to reuse in a submodule of type jar and then add this submodule as a dependency of other projects you have (with packaing type war or jar).
You could read Chapter 6 of the book Maven by Example where it illustrates how to build a maven multi-module project.

How to force intelliJ to import a maven dependency with classifier as a "Maven Library" instead of "Intellij Module"

In my maven based IntelliJ project I have 2 modules - modules A and B.
The pom.xml of module A creates an uber jar (including dependencies which are not accessible by the project) and attaches it as an artifact with classifier "withdeps"
The pom.xml of module B has a dependency on the classified "withdeps" artifact A
When I import the maven modules IntelliJ adds the module's A source code in the dependencies of module B (ignoring the "withdeps" classifier).
Is it possible to force Intellij to add the module A dependency to B as "maven library" instead of the default "project source code/Intellij module"? If not what can I do to resolve the compilation errors in IntelliJ (Ctrl+F9)
Thanks
Open the pom.xml of module B only when creating the intellij project. Then all dependencies will be as maven dependencies.
The downside is that this way you will have to open module A as separate project in another window, then when you change something you will have to do mvn install and refresh project B.
Much better solution would be to install all depencencies into maven repository, described here in maven docs.

tycho plugin + maven-dependency-plugin: copy dependencies from local projects instead repositories

Main Goal: deploy a project as jar and eclipse-plugin
current state: project builds fine as jar package
Now i want to create a second project which wraps the jar project as eclipse plugin
use tycho-maven-plugin to create eclipse-plugin
add the jar of the original project (with copy-dependency)
add an Activator
export packages from jar
create correct MANIFEST.MF
i tried to copy the jar with copy-dependencies bound to create-resources. This works as long the jar is found in repository, but the local project gets ignored.
This results in a build failure since the jar is not found.
Is it possible to tell copy-dependencies to take the jar from the target directory of the project? Or should i use some other method than using tycho?
Edit:
I solved my problem with 4 projects:
normal project (nothing special here)
the wrapper project using tycho maven and copy-dependencies.
bound copy dependencies to some goal before compile (e.g. generate-resources). Excluded all artefactid which were set as dependency in the MANIFEST.MF.
a prepare project, which calls the normal project and installs it into the repo. This is needed because the tycho-maven-plugin is bound to validate and it is not possible to call the exec plugin beforehand (at least not easy).
a multi module project which calls the prepare project before the wrapper project.
Build your local project (which artifact was missed) with "mvm install". It will be deployed in your local repository ($USER_HOME$/.m2/repositories). After this dependency should be resolved.
Alternatively you can "mvn deploy" if you have local company maven repository like Artifactory or Nexus.

Maven packaging ear finding dependency from project level but not from parent

I've currently got a parent pom that declares two modules: an ear and a war. The ear is reliant on the war (and declares a dependency for it with group/artifact id and packaging type).
When packaging from the parent pom level, the reactor picks up both artifacts and properly packages the war into the ear as you would expect. However, when packaging from the ear's project pom (despite having declared elements in both projects pointing to the parent pom) the ear fails to find the war artifact.
I know that when packaging at the ear level Maven finds its way to the parent correctly, but does it not then iterate down to the various modules that the parent contains to pick up artifacts?
Thanks :)
That's the way Maven works. It's OK. When resolving dependencies, Maven looks for them in reactor, then local repository, then remote repos. So, when doing a build from a parent project level, both projects are in the reactor, so EAR can pick WAR easily. (To be specific, it's not because the parent-child relation, but the fact they are modules.) However, when you build an EAR module in isolation, reactor can't provide WAR as well as local repo as well as remote repos. If you install WAR module into local repo by mvn install and then try to build EAR, WAR artifact will be found using local repo.
Sounds like your parenting structure is broken, if the EAR depends on the WAR then it should be a child module.

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