I have a maven module that I need to use in the J2ME client and in the EJB server. In the client I need to compile it for target 1.1 and in the server for target 1.6 .
I also need to deploy the 1.6 version to a Nexus repository, so the members working on the server project can include this dependency without needing to download the source code.
I've read at http://java.dzone.com/articles/maven-profile-best-practices that using profiles is not the best way of doing this, but the author didn't say what's the best way.
Here is my pom.xml:
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<artifactId>proj-parent</artifactId>
<groupId>br.com.comp.proj</groupId>
<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>proj-cryptolib</artifactId>
<name>proj - Cryto Lib</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>br.com.comp</groupId>
<artifactId>comp-proj-mobile-messages</artifactId>
<version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.3</source>
<target>1.1</target>
<fork>true</fork>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
A Build profile is a set of configuration values, which can be used to set or override default values of Maven build. Using a build profile, you can customize build for different environments such as Production v/s Development environments. Profiles are specified in pom.
Examples of artifacts produced by Maven for a project include: JARs, source and binary distributions, WARs. Each artifact is identified by a group id, an artifact ID, a version, an extension and a classifier (extension+classifier may be named by a type).
groupId – a unique base name of the company or group that created the project. artifactId – a unique name of the project. version – a version of the project. packaging – a packaging method (e.g. WAR/JAR/ZIP)
2. Default Packaging Types. Maven offers many default packaging types that include a jar, war, ear, pom, rar, ejb, and maven-plugin.
As Haylem suggests thought you'll need to do it in two steps, one for the compile and one for the jars.
For the compiler
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<source>1.3</source>
<target>1.5</target>
<fork>true</fork>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}_jdk5</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<configuration>
<source>1.3</source>
<target>1.6</target>
<fork>true</fork>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}_jdk6</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
And then for the jar plugin
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<classesDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}_jdk5</classesDirectory>
<classifier>jdk5</classifier>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<classesDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}_jdk6</classesDirectory>
<classifier>jdk6</classifier>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
you can then refer to the required jar by adding a <classifier>
element to your dependency. e.g.
<dependency>
<groupId>br.com.comp.proj</groupId>
<artifactId>proj-cryptolib</artifactId>
<version>0.0.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
<classifier>jdk5</classifier>
</dependency>
You can configure this via the Maven compiler plugin.
Take a look at the Maven compiler plugin documentation.
You could enable this via different profiles for instance.
If you only want to have different target versions you could simply use a variable target. Something like this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.3</source>
<target>${TARGET_VERSION}</target>
<fork>true</fork>
</configuration>
</plugin>
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