How can a module be independent?  meaning standalone within eclipse.  because
as it is now, the parent pom is responsible to glue everything together at
build time (not the webapp module for example within eclipse).



user09772 wrote:
> 
> Thanks that is an excellent resource.
> 
> I think parent poms is what i was looking for.
> 
> The way i understand it parent poms are used to simply install the proper
> modules?  so for each product its possible to have a parent pom which ties
> various modules into the repro.  
> 
> If module1 depends on module2 & module3, but module4 only needs to be
> visible to module2.  How can i do this hierarchy with parent poms?  Will
> the parent pom have all the modules, and module4 have module2 as it's
> dependency?
> 
> 
> Patrick Turcotte-3 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Part of your problem could/(should?) be resolved with parent poms.
>> 
>> A good read is the sonatype maven book (
>> http://www.sonatype.com/products/maven/documentation/book-defguide)
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> On 10-03-02 02:18 PM, user09772 wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> dahoffer wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Without knowing details all I can give are general suggestions...
>>>>
>>>> - Things you want to version/branch as a unit go in the same project
>>>> (may have several modules).
>>>> - Common things that are used in more than one project go in a
>>>> separate project (may have several modules) and are depended on as
>>>> needed.
>>>>
>>>> -Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> Thanks for the response. 
>>>
>>> Right.  so all the projects i mentioned would need to be versioning (the
>>> commands will change that the services use, the services will change
>>> that
>>> the rest projects use etc.).  That is at a high level point of view
>>> right. 
>>> I'm probably thinking more on how to use Maven modules to provide
>>> separation
>>> between each of the components.
>>>
>>> The main thing i would like to accomplish is have the ability to switch
>>> out
>>> any of the projects (modules?) with another one and build the system
>>> using
>>> those new modules.
>>>   
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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