Building a scala app with maven (that has java source mixed in)

Question

I have an application where I would like to have mixed Java and Scala source (actually its migrating a java app to scala - but a bit at a time).

I can make this work in IDEs just fine, very nice. But I am not sure how to do this with maven - scalac can compile java and scala intertwined, but how to I set up maven for the module?

Also, does my scala source have to be a different folder to the java?

Answer 1

Using the maven scala plugin, a config like the one below will work for a project that mixes java and scala source (scala source of course goes in the /scala directory, as mentioned by someone else).

You can run run mvn compile, test etc... and it will all work as normal. Very nice (it will run scalac first automatically).

For a great IDE, IntelliJ 8 works nicely: add in the scala plug in, then add a scala facet, and then adjust the compile setting for scala to run scalac first (critical if you have circular dependencies with scala and java source).

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>demo</groupId> <artifactId>scala-java-app</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>scala-java-app</name> <repositories>     <repository>         <id>scala-tools.org</id>         <name>Scala-tools Maven2 Repository</name>         <url>http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases</url>     </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories>     <pluginRepository>         <id>scala-tools.org</id>         <name>Scala-tools Maven2 Repository</name>         <url>http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases</url>     </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> <build>     <plugins>         <plugin>             <groupId>org.scala-tools</groupId>             <artifactId>maven-scala-plugin</artifactId>             <executions>                  <execution>                     <id>compile</id>                     <goals>                         <goal>compile</goal>                     </goals>                     <phase>compile</phase>                 </execution>                 <execution>                     <id>test-compile</id>                     <goals>                         <goal>testCompile</goal>                     </goals>                     <phase>test-compile</phase>                 </execution>                 <execution>                    <phase>process-resources</phase>                    <goals>                      <goal>compile</goal>                    </goals>                 </execution>             </executions>         </plugin>         <plugin>             <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>             <configuration>                 <source>1.5</source>                 <target>1.5</target>             </configuration>         </plugin>     </plugins>   </build> <dependencies>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>         <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>         <version>2.7.2</version>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>junit</groupId>         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>         <version>3.8.1</version>         <scope>test</scope>     </dependency> </dependencies>