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Apache Maven Cookbook

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Apache Maven Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Maven Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Selectively building modules


When a project has a number of modules, there may be situations when we might want to selectively build modules. One such situation could be because the module might run only on specific machines. Another reason could be that a module may have long-running tests that may make sense only in test servers.

Let us see how we can selectively build modules by using the profile feature of Maven.

How to do it...

  1. Open a multi-module project that has two modules (two-multi-module), namely common-one and dev-two.

  2. In the parent pom, add one project to the modules section:

      <modules>
          <module>common-one</module>
      </modules>
  3. Define a profile and include both modules:

    <profiles>
          <profile>
              <id>dev</id>
              <modules>
                  <module>common-one</module>
                  <module>dev-two</module>
              </modules>
          </profile>
      </profiles>
  4. Run the Maven...