In my previous post I showed how to use the maven-xtend-plugin to compile Xtend sources within a Maven build. This worked fine in simple cases, but there was a limitation of only one supported source directory (the one configured by build/sourceDirectory property), see Bug#367914. Unfortunately already each Xtext project has already 2 source folders (src and src-gen), so this made the plugin unusable for Xtext projects and forced checking in the generated Java files. This causes terrible problems with version control, especially when working on a team.
In the meantime Bug#367914 was resolved, but only for the upcoming Xtend 2.3 (Eclipse Juno) version. This urgent bugfix was not available on a Maven repository. But I needed it for project Spray to finally get rid of the merge conflicts and delete the generated sources from the repository (issue#94). Spray is still using Xtext/Xtend version 2.2.1 and depends on public available Maven artifacts. Since the bugfix won’t be available from the Xtend project for the 2.2.1 release and Eclipse Juno is still some way to go I decided to backport the current 2.3.0 M6 sources of the Xtend Maven Plugin to 2.2.x and create an unofficial version 2.2.2. This plugin I have deployed to the Fornax Repository to make it public available.
For an usage example refer to the POMs of project Spray: pom.xml, parent pom.xml.
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Hi, maybe I’m saying something silly since I don’t use Xtend, but can’t you use the following mojo to handle multiple source folders? http://mojo.codehaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/add-source-mojo.html and then play with maven lifecycle and phases to bind the generation of java from xtend to a phase and the build helper to a later one?
Anyway, I’m willing to use xtend to a personal project. Keep the good job! (in spray too!)
Regards,
Xavier
@Xavier: Sadly, no. I tried it, and looked at the code in the Maven compiler plug-in, and it was really a bug in Xtend 2.2 – it always expected a single source folder. So this backporting is nice to have (in our project we have simply updated the dependencies to Xtend 2.3, as we have not done a release yet, but this one would work as well).
Great plugin! And great timing too: I only migrated a project to Eclispe 4.2/Xtext 2.3 today. Thank you very much for the plugin and for making it available!
Two questions:
1) org.eclipse.emf.mwe2.launch is declared optional by default (I figure since it is a pure build dependency and not required later on). The plugin/Maven requires it to be declared non-optional. Is it possible to force the plugin/Maven to use load launch even it is declared optional?
2) I have a custom fragment (a scoping fragment), its Java code is found in the src folder of the project. In order to run the workflow, this fragment has to be compiled. Do you have any experiences / hints how to to that? (I admit to be a Maven rookie).
Cheers,
Jens
Hi Jens,
1) Did not try that, but usually you can declare additional dependencies in the plugin configuration. Therefore you would have to provide a dependency to mwe2.launch. You could try to declare the dependency with <type>eclipse-plugin</type>
2) The code must be in a seperate plugin on which the plugin itself is dependent. This way it is compiled and jarred before it used. That’s the typical way.
Note that the published plugin compiles with Xtext/Xtend 2.2.1, not 2.3.0. The plugin will be published officially with 2.3.0 somewhere.
Best wishes,
~Karsten
What do you mean by “This causes terrible problems with version control, especially when working on a team”?
I’m currently trying to use xtend 2.3 via maven.
Since I couldn’t find version 2.3 of the xtend-maven-plugin I boldly tried to rewire the 2.3.0-M6 plugin via my pom:
<plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.xtend</groupId> <artifactId>xtend-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.0-M6</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.xtend</groupId> <artifactId>org.eclipse.xtend.standalone</artifactId> <version>2.3.0</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin>Actually this works 🙂
I just looks a bit shaky to use that combination of versions. Are there any plans to release a new version of the maven plugin?
thanks,
Stephan
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