I'm starting my work on the project related to creating some custom set of jmeter components that would be bundled in my custom jmeter distribution.
Those custom components are part of the Maven project and what I would like to do is try to integrate this maven project with latest jmeter project to be able to build and deliver jmeter build that contains my custom set of components with all related dependency jars.
Problem is that jmeter project is ant project.
I've came across this: http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-using-ant.html, maven-antrun-plugin which gives a possibility to embed ant task inside the maven pom.
Since I've never worked with ant (only worked with maven), my idea of using this plugin inside pom would be to define following targets:
download jmeter source from svn repository
build jmeter distribution
after building maven project (after install phase), copy jars (component and dependency jars) to the jmeter lib to form the final jmeter distribution with my custom components.
My question is: Do you find this approach as the right one (are there some things to consider while doing this) and if not, can you suggest me some other ways of achieving the same goal?
Thanks in advance
Since JMeter 2.6, Apache JMeter artifacts are published on maven2 repositories.
See:
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.jmeter/
See for an example :
https://github.com/Ronnie76er/jmeter-maven-plugin/wiki
So what you can do is have your maven project that references these artifacts as dependencies.
And if you want to generate a full bundle containing JMETER+You Plugins then use AntRunner to :
Unzip the official distribution
Copy your artifact in jmeter/lib/ext and dependencies in jmeter/lib
rezip it
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I am using one Apache open source project and its pre-built binary contains all the target jars and the corresponding dependency jars for deployment.
But when I build from source like mvn clean install, how could I also get the necessary dependency jars for deployment?
I suggest two options:
Build a fat jar: the maven output jar will contain ll necessary classes taken from its dependencies. To accomplish this task you can use the maven-assembly-plugin maven plugin. You can read a good tutorial here.
Configure maven to copy all needed jar in a specific folder. To accomplish this task you can use the maven-dependency-plugin maven plugin. You will find a good tutorial here.
Are there any plugins or ways to download the dependencies for a maven project from Jenkins? I am using Jenkins for a multi-module desktop application. Although I know I could just archive all dependencies, I don't see why there isn't the ability to download dependencies using maven which installed on the same machine as Jenkins. Preferably one would specify the location of a pom and then have the ability with one click to download all the dependencies for that pom. Can you do this? I do not need or want an entire binary repository for this feature.
Edit: I will try and rephrase this as I don't think people are understanding.
In Jenkins one has the ability to archive artifacts at the end of a build. Also in jenkins you have integration with maven. When building a jar in maven you have arguablly 2 options:
You can either use the assembly plugin which zips all .class files
together with those produced from your source code resulting in 1 jar
You can create a jar just source code which references all
dependency jars which are located in a separate folder.
In Jenkins one also has the ability to download the latest artifact. Now if I am using Option 2, I can either archieve just the jar which my sources produced, which I would say is more desirable for space and is the whole purpose of the archive functionality, or you can also archive the libraries too.
Here is the PROBLEM!! If I don't archive the libraries then I cannot easily run this jar, as it is a desktop application and its dependencies cannot be obtained in the same mannor as clicking on a link from jenkins. So lets say my question is what is the easiest way to obtain them? Extra info: assume jenkins is running as a server and you can't use artifactory or another server application, that seems to me to be massive over kill.
Use the maven plugin and create a maven job for your project. Jenkins will then use the maven command you provide in the job configuration to build the project. This means maven will download the projects dependencies and store them on the machine jenkins is running. Normally this would be <JENKINS_HOME>/.m2/repository. This way you get a local repository that only contains the dependencies of the projects you created maven jobs for.
I've got a Maven project that Jenkins builds and deploys to a remote repository. I then need to copy the deployed .war to an external location. I've been trying to do this with a post-build shell script but I don't see any way to get the build information from maven (for example, the URL of the deployed artifact). Is there a way to get it, or a way to do this that's more integrated into maven? I can calculate the deployment path using Jenkins build parameters but it seems like a hack.
Thanks,
Steve
After a maven build you should always find the build artifact at
target/<artifactId>-<version>.<packaging>
You can access this path within the maven pom.xml by using the maven properties (see pom reference)
${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.${project.packaging}
To copy the artifact to another location after the build you can use several approaches described e.g. in this thread.
I'm building a maven archetype project. As parameter (serviceDescriptor), I'm passing path to an xml file. When the generate goal is successfully executed, I would like to have the serviceDescriptor file in src/main/resources. Based on maven archetype documentation, it seems that is not possible but, there should be a way to do it.
I have spent couple of days on this and I think that I have found a reasonable solution.
As I mention in the question, I'm passing the file path as required property to the archetype:generate.
I had to implement a simple plug-in that is executed after archetype generate is finishing. This plug-in is coping the file into src/main/resources, read some data from the file and update the pom.xml setting some properties. In order to be able to modify the pom.xml file I'm using maven-model-2.0 archetype as dependency in maven plug-in. It offers Maven MvenXpp3Reader and MavenXpp3Writer classes that allows to safe modify pom.xml.
In order to tell to archetype project to execute plug-in at the end of generate phase of archetype:
mvn archetype:generate -goals=plugin_groupId:plugin_artifactId:goal
The downside is that the plug-in should be available in a accessible repository or local repo.
How to build and package RCP (Rich client Platform) using Eclipse.
Is it possible to build as a .jar file.
I use Maven Tycho. I find it a lot easier to use than the PDE ant scripts.
The itp04 RCP example is a good project to get started.
We use Maven 3 and the sonatype-tycho plugin to build our Eclipse RCP-based application. It allows a plugin-first approach, i.e. you define the dependencies only in the plugin.xml using the editor of Eclipse. You don't have to care about dependencies in the pom.xml as these are managed by tycho.
There are detailed instructions at Apache Felix maven Bundle page on how to do this.
Alternatively, There are some quickstart maven archetypes you could download based on these instructions and experiment with.
I have wrapped PDE/Build by Maven manually. You can find an example in my answer to my own question:
How to set up Eclipse PDE/Build with Indigo?